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Exact Match:

poor

unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"

characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

Synonyms:

• DP,
• Lenten,
• Mickey Mouse,
• Spartan,
• abject,
• abominable,
• abstemious,
• against,
• amateurish,
• arrant,
• artless,
• ascetic,
• atrocious,
• attenuated,
• austere,
• awful,
• bad,
• badly off,
• bankrupt,
• bare-handed,
• barren,
• base,
• beggared,
• beggarly,
• below par,
• beneath contempt,
• broke,
• bumbling,
• cadaverous,
• cheap,
• cheeseparing,
• cheesy,
• chinchy,
• chintzy,
• chronic poor,
• chronic poverty area,
• coarse,
• common,
• con,
• contemptible,
• corpselike,
• crumbling,
• crummy,
• debased,
• decrepit,
• defective,
• deficient,
• degraded,
• depleted,
• depraved,
• depressed class,
• depressed population,
• despicable,
• destitute,
• destitution,
• dirty,
• disappointed,
• disapprobatory,
• disapproving,
• discontented,
• disenchanted,
• disgruntled,
• disgusting,
• disillusioned,
• disintegrating,
• displeased,
• dissatisfied,
• dissenting,
• distressed,
• down to bedrock,
• down-and-out,
• dwarfed,
• dwarfish,
• emacerated,
• emaciate,
• emaciated,
• embarrassed,
• empty-handed,
• execrable,
• exhausted,
• exiguous,
• famished,
• faulty,
• feeble,
• feeling the pinch,
• flagrant,
• flat,
• flat broke,
• flawed,
• flimsy,
• fortuneless,
• foul,
• fourth-class,
• frugal,
• fruitless,
• fulsome,
• gaudy,
• ghetto-dwellers,
• gimcracky,
• grave,
• gross,
• haggard,
• half-assed,
• half-starved,
• hapless,
• hard up,
• heinous,
• hollow-eyed,
• homely,
• humble,
• humble-looking,
• humble-visaged,
• humblest,
• ill,
• ill off,
• ill-equipped,
• ill-fated,
• ill-furnished,
• ill-provided,
• ill-starred,
• impecunious,
• impecuniousness,
• impoverished,
• impoverishment,
• in Queer Street,
• in narrow circumstances,
• in need,
• in rags,
• in reduced circumstances,
• in straitened circumstances,
• in want,
• inadept,
• inadequate,
• inapt,
• inattentive,
• inconclusive,
• inconsequential,
• indigence,
• indigent,
• indignant,
• inefficient,
• inept,
• inexpert,
• inferior,
• infertile,
• infirm,
• infrequent,
• inglorious,
• innocuous,
• insignificant,
• insolvent,
• insubstantial,
• insufficient,
• irregular,
• jejune,
• land-poor,
• lean,
• least,
• limited,
• little,
• lousy,
• low,
• low-class,
• low-down,
• low-grade,
• low-quality,
• low-test,
• lowest,
• lowliest,
• lowly,
• luckless,
• lumpen,
• mangy,
• marantic,
• marasmic,
• meager,
• mean,
• measly,
• mediocre,
• meretricious,
• miserable,
• miserly,
• modest,
• moneyless,
• monstrous,
• narrow,
• necessitous,
• neediness,
• needy,
• nefarious,
• niggardly,
• obnoxious,
• odious,
• on short commons,
• on the edge,
• opposed,
• opposing,
• out of pocket,
• outcasts,
• paltry,
• parsimonious,
• pathetic,
• pauperism,
• pauperized,
• peaked,
• peaky,
• pedestrian,
• penniless,
• penurious,
• penury,
• petty,
• piddling,
• pinched,
• pitiable,
• pitiful,
• plain,
• poky,
• poorish,
• poorly off,
• poorness,
• poverty subculture,
• poverty-stricken,
• privation,
• punk,
• puny,
• rank,
• rare,
• reduced,
• reptilian,
• rotten,
• rotten at,
• rubbishy,
• ruined,
• sad,
• scabby,
• scant,
• scanty,
• scarce,
• scattered,
• scrawny,
• scrimp,
• scrimping,
• scrimpy,
• scrubby,
• scruffy,
• scummy,
• scurvy,
• scuzzy,
• second-best,
• second-class,
• second-rate,
• seedy,
• seldom met with,
• seldom seen,
• shabby,
• shoddy,
• short,
• short of cash,
• short of funds,
• short of money,
• shorthanded,
• shriveled,
• simple,
• skeletal,
• skill-less,
• skimp,
• skimping,
• skimpy,
• slender,
• slight,
• slim,
• slipshod,
• slum-dwellers,
• small,
• sorry,
• spare,
• sparing,
• sparse,
• spotty,
• sprinkled,
• squalid,
• squeezed,
• star-crossed,
• starvation,
• starved,
• starveling,
• starving,
• sterile,
• stingy,
• stinted,
• stone-broke,
• stony,
• straitened,
• strapped,
• stunted,
• subsistence,
• substandard,
• tabetic,
• tabid,
• tacky,
• teachable,
• the disadvantaged,
• the dispossessed,
• the distressed,
• the down-and-out,
• the forgotten man,
• the have-nots,
• the needy,
• the other America,
• the poor,
• the powerless,
• the underprivileged,
• the urban poor,
• thin,
• third-class,
• third-rate,
• thoughtless,
• tight,
• tinny,
• trashy,
• trifling,
• trivial,
• trumpery,
• turned-off,
• two-for-a-cent,
• two-for-a-penny,
• twopenny,
• twopenny-halfpenny,
• unacceptable,
• unappreciative,
• unapproving,
• unapt,
• uncomplimentary,
• undeft,
• under par,
• underdeveloped nation,
• underfed,
• undermanned,
• undernourished,
• underprivileged,
• undexterous,
• undextrous,
• undistinguished,
• unfacile,
• unfavorable,
• unfed,
• unfirm,
• unfortunate,
• unfruitful,
• unhappy,
• unimportant,
• unintelligent,
• unlucky,
• unmentionable,
• unmoneyed,
• unnourishing,
• unnutritious,
• unpretentious,
• unproductive,
• unprofessional,
• unproficient,
• unprosperous,
• unproved,
• unprovided,
• unreplenished,
• unrigorous,
• unsatisfactory,
• unskillful,
• unsolid,
• unsound,
• unstable,
• unsturdy,
• unsubstantial,
• unsupplied,
• unsustained,
• valueless,
• vile,
• want,
• wasted,
• watered,
• watery,
• weak,
• weazeny,
• welfare rolls,
• wiped out,
• withered,
• wizened,
• worthless,
• wraithlike,
• wretched