Poor
Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
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Poor Quotations
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde
Poor Translations
poor in Afrikaans is kwaai, arm, sleg
poor in Dutch is erbarmelijk, beklagenswaardig
poor in Finnish is kurja
poor in French is pauvre, maigre
poor in Italian is umile, povero
poor in Latin is penuriosus, levidensis, pauper, inops
poor in Portuguese is mau, pobre
poor in Spanish is pobre
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