| poor | |
| 1. adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. | |
| We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes. | |
| 2. adj. Of low quality. | |
| That was a poor performance. | |
| 3. adj. Used to express pity. | |
| Oh you poor little thing. | |
| 4. adj. Deficient in a specified way. | |
| Cow's milk is poor in iron. | |
| 5. adj. Inadequate, insufficient. | |
| I received a poor reward for all my hard work. | |
| 6. adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. | |
| 7. n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group. | |
| The poor are always with us. | |
