Word Meanings - POOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. 3. Hence, in very various applications: (more info) or povre, OF. povre, F. pauvre, L. pauper; the first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few , and

Additional info about word: POOR

So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. 3. Hence, in very various applications: (more info) or povre, OF. povre, F. pauvre, L. pauper; the first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few , and the second to parare to prepare, procure. See Few, and cf. Parade, 1. Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent. Note: It is often synonymous with indigent and with necessitous denoting extreme want. It is also applied to persons who are not entirely destitute of property, but who are not rich; as, a poor man or woman; poor people.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POOR)

• Beggarly
• Miserable
• poor
• stinted
• wretched
• niggardly
• stingy
• scant
• illiberal
• Feeble
• Wretched
• weak
• frail
• debilitated
• dull
• forceless
• puny
• nerveless
• enfeebled
• enervated
• faint
• infirm
• incomplete
• vain
• fruitless
• scanty
• pitiable
• Flimsy
• Gauzy
• thin
• transparent
• trifling
• trivial
• puerile
• inane
• slight
• superficial
• shallow
• Indigent
• Poor
• straitened
• needy
• impecunious
• Jejune
• Bare
• barren
• sterile
• poverty-struck
• bald

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POOR)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to POOR)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.