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Definition of Poor

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. Related Definitions: Also, An, And, Are, Arrogant, As, Barren, Be, Beauty, Business, Called, Clothes, Cod, Codfish, Completely, Contempt, Dejected, Desirable, Destitute, Discourse, Dog, Emaciated, Endearment, Entitled, European, Excuse, Exhausted, Expected, Expression, Fat, Feeble, Fertility, Fitness, Fleshiness, Free, From, Good, Goods, Had, Health, Horse, In, Inadequate, Indigent, Inferior, Insignificant, Insufficient, Land, Lean, Little, Maintenance, Man, Material, Meager, Mean, Meek, Merit, Might, Modesty, Naturally, Needy, Night, Not, Of, Or, Ox, Picture, Pity, Plumpness, Poor, Power, Property, Prosperous, Proud, Public, Qualities, Riches, Said, Self-Assertion, Shabby, Sick, Small, So, Soil, Sometimes, Sterile, Strength, Such, Sympathy, Term, The, To, Unconformable, Unfavorable, Unfortunate, Used, Value, Vigor, Wanting, Without, Word, Worth, Worthy

Poor Quotations When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

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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