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Poor
/poː/
(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
📖 Definitions of "Poor"
noun
- 1
(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
"The poor are always with us."
adjective
- 1
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
"We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes."
- 2
Of low quality.
"That was a poor performance."
- 3
Used to express pity.
"Oh you poor little thing."
- 4
Deficient in a specified way.
"Cow's milk is poor in iron."
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