Synonyms: poor, poor people
Definition: people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
Usage: the urban poor need assistance
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: hapless, poor, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic
Definition: deserving or inciting pity
Usage: a hapless victim; miserable victims of war; the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy; piteous appeals for help; pitiable homeless children; a pitiful fate; Oh, you poor thing; his poor distorted limbs; a wretched life
Similar words: unfortunate
Definition: not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
Usage: an unfortunate turn of events; an unfortunate decision; unfortunate investments; an unfortunate night for all concerned
Synonyms: poor
Definition: unsatisfactory
Usage: a poor light for reading; poor morale; expectations were poor
Similar words: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: a bad report card; his sloppy appearance made a bad impression; a bad little boy; clothes in bad shape; a bad cut; bad luck; the news was very bad; the reviews were bad; the pay is bad; it was a bad light for reading; the movie was a bad choice
Synonyms: poor
Definition: having little money or few possessions
Usage: deplored the gap between rich and poor countries; the proverbial poor artist living in a garret
Similar words: bust, broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke
Definition: lacking funds
Usage: `skint' is a British slang term
Similar words: poverty-stricken, necessitous, needy, destitute, indigent, impoverished
Definition: poor enough to need help from others
Similar words: impecunious, in straitened circumstances, hard up, penniless, penurious, pinched
Definition: not having enough money to pay for necessities
Similar words: moneyless
Definition: having no money
Usage: virtually moneyless rural regions
Similar words: unprovided for
Definition: without income or means
Usage: left his family unprovided for
Synonyms: poor
Definition: lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
Usage: a poor land; the area was poor in timber and coal; food poor in nutritive value
Similar words: resourceless
Definition: lacking or deficient in natural resources
Synonyms: poor
Definition: characterized by or indicating poverty
Usage: the country had a poor economy; they lived in the poor section of town
Definition: marked by poverty befitting a beggar
Usage: a beggarly existence in the slums; a mean hut
Similar words: slummy
Definition: (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty
Usage: a slummy part of town; slum conditions
Synonyms: inadequate, poor, short
Definition: not sufficient to meet a need
Usage: an inadequate income; a poor salary; money is short; on short rations; food is in short supply; short on experience
Similar words: deficient, insufficient
Definition: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
Usage: insufficient funds