What is another word for poor?
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[ pˈʊ͡ə], [ pˈʊə], [ p_ˈʊə]
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Similar words for poor:
- all (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- base (adjective)
- below par (adjective)
- broke (adjective)
- cheap (adjective)
- common (adjective)
- contemptible (adjective)
- crummy (adjective)
- defective (adjective)
- defenseless (adjective)
- deficient (adjective)
- dependent (adjective)
- deplorable (adjective)
- deprived (adjective)
- destitute (adjective)
- disadvantaged (adjective)
- dissatisfactory (adjective)
- embarrassed (adjective)
- exiguous (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- flimsy (adjective)
- ignoble (adjective)
- impecunious (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- incapable (adjective)
- infelicitous (adjective)
- insubstantial (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- lacking sufficient money (adjective)
- lame (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- lean (adjective)
- limited (adjective)
- lousy (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- lowly (adjective)
- mangy (adjective)
- measly (adjective)
- mere (adjective)
- misbegotten (adjective)
- needy (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- off (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overestimated (adjective)
- pale (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- penniless (adjective)
- piteous (adjective)
- pitiable (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- poverty-stricken (adjective)
- ragged (adjective)
- rotten (adjective)
- scant (adjective)
- scant/scanty (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- second-rate (adjective)
- second-rate/second-class (adjective)
- seedy (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- skimpy (adjective)
- sloppy (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- sordid (adjective)
- sparse (adjective)
- strapped (adjective)
- substandard (adjective)
- tawdry (adjective)
- terrible (adjective)
- thin (adjective)
- threadbare (adjective)
- two-bit (adjective)
- unadvantageous (adjective)
- underdeveloped (adjective)
- underprivileged (adjective)
- unfavorable (adjective)
- unfortunate (adjective)
- unfortunate, unhappy (adjective)
- unsatisfactory (adjective)
- unseemly (adjective)
- unwashed (adjective)
- wanting (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- weak, unfertile (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- worse (adjective)
- worthless (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- beggarly (noun)
- bust (noun)
- deficient (noun)
- group (noun)
- hapless (noun)
- hardscrabble (noun)
- impoverished (noun)
- indigent (noun)
- inferior (noun)
- in straitened circumstances (noun)
- mediocre (noun)
- misfortunate (noun)
- pitiable (noun)
- pitiful (noun)
- resourceless (noun)
- skint (noun)
- stony-broke (noun)
- unfruitful (noun)
- unprovided for (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- bankrupt
- flimsy
- horrible
- out-of-date
- terrible
Synonyms for Poor:
adj.
• all (adjective)- poor.
- faulty,
- most inferior,
- junky,
- invalid,
- displeasing,
- cruddy,
- punk,
- unsound,
- arrant,
- irremediable,
- unpleasant,
- vile,
- black,
- poorer,
- wrong,
- detrimental,
- sad,
- baneful,
- wretched,
- not good,
- bottom out,
- ill-suited,
- inferior,
- inadvisable,
- grody,
- the pits,
- godawful.
- de-sert,
- empty,
- more unfurnished,
- un-furnished,
- de solate,
- most unfurnished,
- de sert,
- un furnished,
- de-solate.
- dis-graceful,
- menial,
- dis-honorable,
- foul,
- dis reputable,
- un worthier,
- un-worthy,
- dis graceful,
- dis honorable,
- in delicate,
- un worthy,
- more grovelling,
- grovelling,
- un-worthier,
- dis-reputable,
- scandalous,
- most grovelling,
- un-worthiest,
- un worthiest,
- in-delicate.
- more offform,
- under weather,
- most off-form,
- offform,
- more off-form,
- most offform,
- more off form,
- off form,
- most off form.
- prosy,
- lowgrade,
- un distinguished,
- most characterless,
- hackest,
- low grade,
- more characterless,
- un-distinguished,
- impure,
- prosier,
- prosiest,
- middling.
- de-generate,
- de-testable,
- outcast,
- most low-down,
- scummy,
- dis-gusting,
- more currish,
- more swinish,
- de testable,
- most despisable,
- most lowdown,
- more outcast,
- scurvier,
- heelest,
- more low down,
- scurviest,
- out cast,
- de generate,
- more despisable,
- out-cast,
- scummiest,
- most swinish,
- more low-down,
- dis gusting,
- most low down,
- heel,
- more lowdown,
- most outcast,
- low down.
- more thirdrate,
- grottiest,
- more subpar,
- most sub-par,
- most third rate,
- sub par,
- most subpar,
- most third-rate,
- most thirdrate,
- more third rate,
- more third-rate,
- third rate,
- more sub par,
- grottier,
- thirdrate,
- more sub-par,
- most sub par.
- un-healthy,
- un-sound,
- un sound,
- out order,
- incomplete,
- in complete,
- un healthy,
- un-finished,
- most seconds,
- un soundest,
- more flawed,
- more blemished,
- more seconds,
- most blemished,
- sub normal,
- un-healthier,
- on bum,
- sub-normal,
- more subnormal,
- on the bum,
- un-sounder,
- un sounder,
- sickest,
- un-soundest,
- most flawed,
- in-complete,
- un finished,
- un healthier,
- un-healthiest,
- un healthiest,
- most subnormal.
- pigeon,
- up the creek,
- unguarded,
- on the spot,
- wide open,
- on line,
- unprotected,
- in line of fire,
- like a sitting duck,
- like a clay pigeon,
- hands tied,
- out on limb,
- on the line.
- un-sustaining,
- de pendent,
- de-pendent,
- more under,
- most abased,
- most unsustaining,
- more unsustaining,
- most humbled,
- most under,
- more abased,
- un sustaining,
- sub ordinate,
- de-based,
- de based,
- sub-ordinate,
- tied apron strings,
- more humbled.
- be-reft,
- totaled,
- stripped,
- more without,
- be reft,
- more pinched,
- most totaled,
- most pinched,
- most without,
- most divested,
- most busted,
- more totaled,
- on rocks,
- more divested,
- more busted,
- most moneyless,
- on breadline,
- more moneyless.
- inefficient,
- sapless,
- enervated,
- fainter,
- in firm,
- Strengthless,
- fragile,
- impotent,
- out of gas,
- wimpy.
- in-credible,
- in-conceivable,
- more unpersuasive,
- more ungrounded,
- un substantial,
- in credible,
- most controvertible,
- illogical,
- most unpersuasive,
- un persuasive,
- more controvertible,
- trans-parent,
- un reasonable,
- trans parent,
- un-substantial,
- in conceivable,
- un believable,
- most ungrounded,
- un grounded,
- un-believable,
- un-grounded,
- un-reasonable,
- un-persuasive.
- junker,
- glitcher,
- most lemon,
- un equal,
- in-aptest,
- un-equal,
- lemon,
- in-adequate,
- in considerable,
- junkest,
- un qualified,
- too little,
- minus,
- in commensurate,
- in-considerable,
- most stinted,
- inconsiderable,
- un productive,
- in appreciable,
- in-apter,
- in-appreciable,
- bushleague,
- more niggardly,
- most niggardly,
- un-qualified,
- glitchest,
- in apter,
- more stinted,
- un-productive,
- in aptest,
- in-commensurate,
- more lemon,
- in adequate.
- in expert,
- in effective,
- in-expert,
- more unequipped,
- in proficient,
- un-abler,
- dis-qualified,
- in-eligible,
- most disqualified,
- in-experienced,
- most inproficient,
- un-cool,
- more uncool,
- un-skilled,
- in capable,
- in eligible,
- most unequipped,
- more ineffective,
- more inproficient,
- not to,
- un-equipped,
- in-proficient,
- un skilled,
- in-effective,
- un abler,
- more disqualified,
- un-skillful,
- in-capable,
- un cool,
- most butterfingers,
- un-fit,
- un skillful,
- ineffective,
- more butterfingers,
- un equipped,
- dis qualified,
- in experienced,
- un suited,
- un-ablest,
- un-suited,
- losing,
- most uncool,
- un ablest.
- in corporeal,
- meta physical,
- in-tangible,
- too little too late,
- un-real,
- fly by night,
- in tangible,
- meta-physical,
- in substantial,
- in-substantial,
- in-corporeal.
- empty-handed,
- Pauperized,
- underprivileged,
- bankrupt,
- truly needy,
- down-and-out,
- necessitous,
- behind eight ball,
- flat,
- suffering,
- pinched.
- lamest,
- most unpleasing,
- more faltering,
- un-pleasing,
- most faltering,
- more unpleasing,
- lame,
- un pleasing.
- more god awful,
- more hurting,
- god awful,
- more god-awful,
- most god awful,
- most hurting,
- most god-awful.
- un-fruitful,
- lean,
- in fertile,
- more shadow,
- most beanpole,
- scraggier,
- more sylphlike,
- most shadow,
- most sylphlike,
- in-fertile,
- un fruitful,
- stickest,
- stilt,
- gangling,
- stilter,
- stiltest,
- more beanpole.
- more turned,
- most mortifying,
- un rewarding,
- more disheartening,
- most turned,
- more decomposed,
- de composed,
- more unrewarding,
- most unrewarding,
- dis-heartening,
- most decomposed,
- not to snuff,
- not up to snuff,
- not snuff,
- de-composed,
- more mortifying,
- most disheartening,
- un-rewarding,
- lowquality,
- dis heartening,
- not up snuff.
- scrubby,
- scant,
- unpromising,
- measly,
- ungrounded,
- scurvy,
- no-good,
- piteous,
- spare,
- mangy,
- Out of keeping,
- flimsy,
- needy,
- miserable,
- unpleasing,
- not equal to,
- worthless,
- scrimpy,
- threadbare,
- Heeler,
- lowdown,
- base,
- scanty,
- played out,
- off,
- below average,
- broken down,
- tatty,
- miserably poor,
- out of money,
- out of luck,
- in want,
- unadvantageous,
- common,
- out of place,
- in the pits,
- niggardly,
- bare,
- shabby,
- not enough,
- counterproductive,
- defective,
- not clean,
- destitute,
- skimpy,
- no fat,
- in the gutter,
- uncool,
- Controvertible,
- doughier,
- unsatisfactory,
- wornout,
- sparse,
- unfortunate,
- sticker,
- hard up,
- exiguous,
- no-account,
- without a dime,
- tinsel,
- defenseless,
- in great need; financially poor,
- scrimper,
- swinish,
- down at the heel,
- counter-productive,
- poverty-stricken,
- Commiserable,
- lousy,
- scraggiest,
- in default,
- worse,
- broke,
- tied to apron strings,
- undignified,
- slummier,
- moneyless,
- devoid of,
- low quality,
- currish,
- buster,
- two-bit,
- Unmoneyed,
- rotten,
- in need of,
- deprived,
- ignoble,
- characterless,
- in need,
- ragged,
- inproficient,
- barely sufficient,
- unrewarding,
- worse for wear,
- flat broke,
- penniless,
- washed out,
- third-rate,
- skimper,
- badly dressed,
- Discommodious,
- low,
- remote,
- below par,
- embarrassed,
- terrible,
- unfavorable,
- lamentable,
- sordid,
- ill-chosen,
- Fortuneless,
- small,
- mere,
- inadequate,
- scummier,
- underdeveloped,
- unthorough,
- Waterish,
- weak,
- on the breadline,
- Unsustaining,
- Bummed,
- deplorable,
- bad off,
- unpersuasive,
- badly worn,
- found wanting,
- impecunious,
- flawed,
- dependent,
- second-best,
- sloppy,
- woeful,
- second class,
- down to last penny,
- sub-par,
- contemptible,
- for the birds,
- stone broke,
- cheap,
- unpressed,
- not good enough,
- deprived of,
- misbegotten,
- infelicitous,
- cleaned out,
- not oneself,
- thin,
- Unsufficient,
- on the rocks,
- scraggy,
- poorly made,
- under thumb,
- bad,
- whitish,
- feeble,
- Beggared,
- pathetic,
- unequipped,
- god-awful,
- dissatisfactory,
- low-down,
- pale,
- in rags,
- Strapped,
- unseemly,
- lowly,
- seedy,
- on last leg,
- insubstantial,
- sorry,
- in tatters,
- impencunious,
- off-form,
- dirt poor,
- dead broke,
- grotty,
- slummy,
- doughy,
- in poor taste,
- sylphlike,
- not up to,
- unfurnished,
- schlocky,
- anguished,
- few and far between,
- Despisable,
- stone-broke.
- waxlike,
- most waxlike,
- most bleached,
- pasty,
- washedout,
- washed-out,
- more bleached,
- most whitish,
- doughiest,
- more whitish,
- more waxlike.
- more entreating,
- most entreating,
- more imploring,
- most supplicating,
- most beseeching,
- more supplicating,
- more beseeching,
- most imploring.
- distressed,
- busted,
- cash-starved,
- dispossessed,
- cash-strapped,
- homeless,
- squalid,
- have-not,
- scruffy,
- dirt-poor,
- underfinanced,
- struggling,
- unsophisticated,
- underpaid,
- badly off,
- bereft,
- landless,
- worse off,
- pauper,
- dilapidated,
- hard-pressed,
- hand-to-mouth.
- in dire circumstances,
- un moneyed,
- needful,
- poverty stricken,
- un-moneyed,
- most suffering,
- down out,
- more suffering,
- most impencunious,
- more unmoneyed,
- more impencunious,
- povertystricken,
- most unmoneyed.
- more fragmented,
- most fragmented,
- down the heel,
- more frazzled,
- un-even,
- more rent,
- full of holes,
- more battered,
- full holes,
- most frazzled,
- in holes,
- more patched,
- dis-organized,
- more shredded,
- most battered,
- most unpressed,
- dis organized,
- un-pressed,
- most rent,
- most patched,
- un pressed,
- un-kempter,
- un-kempt,
- un kemptest,
- un kempter,
- most frayed,
- most shredded,
- un even,
- more frayed,
- more unpressed,
- un kempt,
- un-kemptest.
- punker,
- dis eased,
- punkest,
- bummest,
- most bruised,
- un lucky,
- un-pleasant,
- dis-eased,
- more bruised,
- un happiest,
- un-happy,
- un luckier,
- dis agreeable,
- un-luckier,
- un happier,
- dis-agreeable,
- un luckiest,
- un-lucky,
- un pleasant,
- un happy.
- most second best,
- more second best,
- most secondbest,
- secondrate,
- more secondbest,
- second rate,
- more second-best,
- secondbest,
- most second-best.
- be draggled,
- more dog-eared,
- most dog eared,
- un tidiest,
- gone to seed,
- more dogeared,
- dogeared,
- over grown,
- more wilting,
- most down at the heel,
- used up,
- more sagging,
- down-at-the-heel,
- more dog eared,
- gone seed,
- in bad way,
- in a bad way,
- un-tidy,
- un-tidiest,
- un tidy,
- most down-at-the-heel,
- most sagging,
- be-draggled,
- more down at the heel,
- un tidier,
- un-tidier,
- most wilted,
- most dog-eared,
- most wilting,
- most dogeared,
- more wilted,
- dog-eared,
- more down-at-the-heel,
- over-grown,
- dog eared.
- de-generated,
- most degenerated,
- more disfigured,
- rickety,
- most disfigured,
- de generated,
- dis-figured,
- most deteriorating,
- dis figured,
- more deteriorating,
- more degenerated.
- mini,
- small-scale,
- shrimper,
- one-horse,
- under-sized,
- bitty,
- pocket-sized,
- Toyer,
- pint-sized,
- shrimp,
- runty.
- slumest,
- un cleanliest,
- un-cleanest,
- un-cleanly,
- un clean,
- un-cleanliest,
- un-cleaner,
- un cleanlier,
- un cleanest,
- un cleaner,
- un cleanly,
- uncleanly,
- selfseeking,
- slummiest,
- slumer,
- un-cleanlier,
- smallminded,
- small minded,
- self seeking.
- more dispersed,
- un commonest,
- most dispersed,
- un-commoner,
- un commoner,
- un common,
- few far between,
- un-common.
- more stonebroke,
- most stone broke,
- more fortuneless,
- most fortuneless,
- out money,
- most stonebroke,
- more stone broke,
- more stone-broke,
- stonebroke,
- most stone-broke.
- more gimcrack,
- most gimcrack,
- more screaming,
- most tinsel,
- most flaring,
- more tinsel,
- more flaring,
- most screaming.
- aweinspiring,
- un nerving,
- inconvenient,
- most petrifying,
- un-nerving,
- more unnerving,
- awe inspiring,
- in-convenient,
- more petrifying,
- more dreaded,
- in convenient,
- most unnerving,
- most dreaded.
- more weak-kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- weak kneed,
- un-tenable,
- most stretched,
- most weak-kneed,
- un tenable,
- weakkneed,
- more stretched,
- more weakkneed,
- most diluted,
- more weak kneed.
- in advisable,
- in-opportune,
- un friendliest,
- un-promising,
- dis-commodious,
- more discommodious,
- in opportune,
- un-friendlier,
- un friendlier,
- un seasonable,
- illadvised,
- most unpromising,
- dis-advantageous,
- in-expedient,
- in-advisable,
- in-auspicious,
- dis commodious,
- un-timely,
- un-timeliest,
- un-seasonable,
- un timelier,
- un timeliest,
- in auspicious,
- more unpromising,
- un-friendly,
- un-timelier,
- un timely,
- un promising,
- un-favorable,
- un propitious,
- un favorable,
- dis advantageous,
- most discommodious,
- un-friendliest,
- in expedient.
- ill fated,
- jinxed,
- un-becoming,
- illstarred,
- un-fortunate,
- in-appropriate,
- most shattered,
- in appropriate,
- most jinxed,
- un fortunate,
- starcrossed,
- out luck,
- star crossed,
- un becoming,
- un successful,
- ill-starred,
- more jinxed,
- un-successful,
- more shattered,
- Star-crossed,
- illfated,
- ill starred.
- for birds,
- dis-concerting,
- un desirable,
- un-satisfactory,
- most vexing,
- dis concerting,
- up-setting,
- un-desirable,
- dis quieting,
- un satisfactory,
- more disconcerting,
- dis-quieting,
- up setting,
- more vexing,
- most disconcerting.
- un seemliest,
- in-decent,
- in-decorous,
- un godly,
- un-refined,
- in elegant,
- un-godliest,
- un befitting,
- un-aptest,
- most ruffian,
- un apter,
- un-apter,
- in-elegant,
- un refined,
- un godliest,
- out place,
- un seemlier,
- un-seemlier,
- un-dignified,
- un-godlier,
- out keeping,
- more ruffian,
- un godlier,
- un aptest,
- more undignified,
- un seemly,
- un-godly,
- un-seemly,
- un-befitting,
- in decorous,
- most undignified,
- in decent,
- un dignified,
- un-seemliest.
- co-oked,
- most unfulfilled,
- most cooked,
- unfulfilled,
- un-fulfilled,
- co oked,
- more cooked,
- un fulfilled,
- more away,
- most away,
- more unfulfilled.
- more agonized,
- most agonized,
- most racked,
- most grieving,
- more racked,
- more tortured,
- most anguished,
- most tortured,
- heartsick,
- more anguished,
- more grieving,
- Racked.
- in-utile,
- in utile,
- more good-for-nothing,
- more good for nothing,
- un profitable,
- good for nothing,
- more nothing,
- profitless,
- most counterproductive,
- un availing,
- more counterproductive,
- most good-for-nothing,
- un essential,
- most good for nothing,
- wastest,
- counter productive,
- most nothing,
- more profitless,
- most profitless,
- un usable,
- un-availing,
- un-usable,
- un-essential.
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- easy,
- loud,
- inelegant,
- showy,
- someone couldn't do something if they tried,
- trashy,
- old fashioned,
- ramshackle,
- cheesy,
- crude,
- garish,
- newfangled,
- unsuccessful,
- insignificant,
- lesser,
- Flaunting,
- disgusting,
- outlandish,
- odd,
- gimcrack,
- reduced,
- insipid,
- artificial,
- unsightly,
- dowdy,
- inexpert,
- valueless,
- shoddy,
- vulgar,
- minor,
- smaller,
- rustic,
- crummy,
- homespun,
- rock bottom,
- subordinate,
- amateur,
- tasteless,
- subnormal,
- flashy,
- raunchy,
- diminutive,
- incompetent,
- corny,
- imperfect,
- petty,
- barbarous,
- tawdry,
- secondary,
- homely,
- lower,
- glaring,
- affected,
- incapable,
- trifling,
- unimportant,
- out-of-date,
- pedestrian,
- ordinary,
- trivial,
- sleazy,
- coarse,
- humble,
- unwholesome,
- awful,
- inept,
- gaudy,
- helpless,
- pretentious.
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- sick,
- I know the feeling,
- I don't envy you/him etc.,
- indisposed,
- someone's heart goes out to someone,
- infirm,
- AW,
- (oh,) what a shame,
- too bad,
- bless him/her/them,
- I know.
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- infertile,
- the least/less privileged,
- barren,
- the poor,
- the needy,
- dirt farmer,
- beggar,
- sterile,
- white trash,
- unproductive,
- peasant,
- the dispossessed,
- the have-nots.
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- derisory,
- meagre,
- bum,
- good,
- tight,
- in short/limited supply,
- not go far.
- bust.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- jar.
How to use "Poor" in context?
When you think of someone who is poor, you may think of someone who is living in a home that is not very clean or who does not have much money. You may think of someone who is not able to go to the doctor when they are sick or who does not have enough food to eat.
There are a lot of different types of poor people. Some poor people may live in a home that is very clean and has a lot of money. Some poor people may not have enough money to eat and may live in a home that is very dirty.
There are a lot of different reasons why people are poor.
Paraphrases for Poor:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Independent
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Adjective
difficult, disabled, helpless, lackluster, meager, nasty, pitiful, powerless, rough, tenuous, terrible, unscrupulous, less-favoured, poverty-related.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
struggling.
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Verb, past participle
considered.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
looks.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
appalling, deplorable, depressed, destitute, deteriorating, dilapidated, dire, disadvantaged, disadvantageous, disappointing, dismal, dispossessed, dreadful, erroneous, feeble, handicapped, harsh, imperfect, inadequate, inappropriate, inclement, indigent, ineffective, inferior, insubstantial, insufficient, lacklustre, lamentable, lousy, mediocre, miserable, modest, needy, negative, paltry, pitiable, poverty, poverty-stricken, precarious, puny, rotten, satisfactory, scant, scarce, second-rate, shoddy, sluggish, sore, substandard, underdeveloped, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unsound, well-off, worst, wretched, Deteriorated, crappy, low-quality, sub-standard, poor-quality, resource-poor, nonperforming, nutrient-poor, non-performing, pro-poor, poverty-reducing, non-poor.
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Proper noun, singular
disadvantaged, inadequate, insufficient, poorest, poverty, poorer.
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Noun, singular or mass
destitute, disadvantaged, inadequate, indigent, insufficient, needy, pauper, poorest, poverty, underprivileged, poorer, resource-poor, pro-poor, non-poor.
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Adjective
Homophones for Poor:
- poore.
Hyponym for Poor:
n.
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group
people.
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