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[ pˈʊ͡ə], [ pˈʊ‍ə], [ p_ˈʊə]

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adj.
• all (adjective)
- poor.
• bad (adjective)
- 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.
• bare (adjective)
- de-sert,
- empty,
- more unfurnished,
- un-furnished,
- de solate,
- most unfurnished,
- de sert,
- un furnished,
- de-solate.
• base (adjective)
- 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.
• below par (adjective)
- more offform,
- under weather,
- most off-form,
- offform,
- more off-form,
- most offform,
- more off form,
- off form,
- most off form.
• broke (adjective)
- tapped out,
- in-solvent,
- in debt,
- most beggared,
- in solvent,
- bustest,
- penurious,
- more beggared.
• cheap (adjective)
- scroungy,
- no bargain,
- catchpenny,
- small time,
- glitzy,
- rubbishy,
- rinky-dink,
- rinkydink.
• common (adjective)
- prosy,
- lowgrade,
- un distinguished,
- most characterless,
- hackest,
- low grade,
- more characterless,
- un-distinguished,
- impure,
- prosier,
- prosiest,
- middling.
• contemptible (adjective)
- 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.
• crummy (adjective)
- 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.
• defective (adjective)
- 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.
• defenseless (adjective)
- 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.
• deficient (adjective)
- wanting.
• dependent (adjective)
- 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.
• deplorable (adjective)
- opprobrious.
• deprived (adjective)
• destitute (adjective)
- 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.
• disadvantaged (adjective)
- depressed,
- dis-advantaged,
- discriminated against,
- most hindered,
- more hindered,
- dis advantaged.
• dissatisfactory (adjective)
- not satisfying,
- unsuitable,
- not up to par,
- unsatisfying.
• embarrassed (adjective)
- more straitened,
- most straitened.
• exiguous (adjective)
- meager,
- tiny.
• feeble (adjective)
- inefficient,
- sapless,
- enervated,
- fainter,
- in firm,
- Strengthless,
- fragile,
- impotent,
- out of gas,
- wimpy.
• flimsy (adjective)
- 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.
• ignoble (adjective)
- more peasant,
- de graded,
- in famous,
- most peasant,
- de-graded.
• impecunious (adjective)
- unprosperous.
• inadequate (adjective)
- 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.
• incapable (adjective)
- 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.
• infelicitous (adjective)
- in-felicitous,
- in felicitous.
• insubstantial (adjective)
- 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.
• insufficient (adjective)
- stingy,
- insufficient,
- unfitted,
- unample,
- scarce,
- out of,
- miserly,
- short of,
- Flyspeck.
• lacking sufficient money (adjective)
- empty-handed,
- Pauperized,
- underprivileged,
- bankrupt,
- truly needy,
- down-and-out,
- necessitous,
- behind eight ball,
- flat,
- suffering,
- pinched.
• lame (adjective)
- lamest,
- most unpleasing,
- more faltering,
- un-pleasing,
- most faltering,
- more unpleasing,
- lame,
- un pleasing.
• lamentable (adjective)
- more god awful,
- more hurting,
- god awful,
- more god-awful,
- most god awful,
- most hurting,
- most god-awful.
• lean (adjective)
- 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.
• limited (adjective)
- limited.
• lousy (adjective)
- slovenly,
- unwelcome.
• low (adjective)
- unpretentious,
- cut rate,
- proletarian,
- lowborn,
- marked down,
- uncostly,
- cut-rate.
• lowly (adjective)
- unassuming,
- reverential,
- unwashed,
- cast down.
• mangy (adjective)
- ragtag.
• measly (adjective)
- un generous,
- piddling,
- un-important,
- un-generous.
• mere (adjective)
- pure and simple,
- unmixed,
- unadorned.
• misbegotten (adjective)
- illegal,
- unrespectable.
• needy (adjective)
- down heel,
- down and out,
- down to last cent,
- down last cent,
- down at heel.
• no-account (adjective)
- Drossy.
• no-good (adjective)
- no good,
- nogood.
• off (adjective)
- 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.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- 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.
• overestimated (adjective)
- Overrated.
• pale (adjective)
- waxlike,
- most waxlike,
- most bleached,
- pasty,
- washedout,
- washed-out,
- more bleached,
- most whitish,
- doughiest,
- more whitish,
- more waxlike.
• pathetic (adjective)
- more commiserable,
- most commiserable.
• penniless (adjective)
- in gutter,
- down last penny,
- without dime,
- over barrel.
• piteous (adjective)
- more entreating,
- most entreating,
- more imploring,
- most supplicating,
- most beseeching,
- more supplicating,
- more beseeching,
- most imploring.
• pitiable (adjective)
- more arousing,
- most arousing.
• poor (adjective)
- 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.
• poverty-stricken (adjective)
- 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.
• ragged (adjective)
- 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.
• rotten (adjective)
- 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.
• scant (adjective)
- skimpest.
• scant/scanty (adjective)
- scrimpier,
- scrimpiest.
• scrubby (adjective)
- down-at-heel,
- Curer,
- poter,
- all the worse for wear.
• second-rate (adjective)
- most second best,
- more second best,
- most secondbest,
- secondrate,
- more secondbest,
- second rate,
- more second-best,
- secondbest,
- most second-best.
• second-rate/second-class (adjective)
- most secondrate,
- second-class,
- cheap dirty,
- secondclass,
- cheap and dirty.
• seedy (adjective)
- 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.
• shabby (adjective)
- de-generated,
- most degenerated,
- more disfigured,
- rickety,
- most disfigured,
- de generated,
- dis-figured,
- most deteriorating,
- dis figured,
- more deteriorating,
- more degenerated.
• shoddy (adjective)
- in glorious,
- brokendown,
- dis-creditable,
- in-glorious,
- dis creditable.
• short (adjective)
- shortest,
- short,
- low on,
- shorthanded.
• skimpy (adjective)
- un sufficient,
- more unsufficient,
- scrimpest,
- un-sufficient,
- most unsufficient.
• sloppy (adjective)
- most botched,
- in-attentive,
- more unthorough,
- most unthorough,
- more botched.
• small (adjective)
- mini,
- small-scale,
- shrimper,
- one-horse,
- under-sized,
- bitty,
- pocket-sized,
- Toyer,
- pint-sized,
- shrimp,
- runty.
• sordid (adjective)
- 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.
• sparse (adjective)
- more dispersed,
- un commonest,
- most dispersed,
- un-commoner,
- un commoner,
- un common,
- few far between,
- un-common.
• strapped (adjective)
- more stonebroke,
- most stone broke,
- more fortuneless,
- most fortuneless,
- out money,
- most stonebroke,
- more stone broke,
- more stone-broke,
- stonebroke,
- most stone-broke.
• substandard (adjective)
- sub-standard,
- SUBPAR.,
- sub standard,
- subpar,
- below standard.
• tawdry (adjective)
- more gimcrack,
- most gimcrack,
- more screaming,
- most tinsel,
- most flaring,
- more tinsel,
- more flaring,
- most screaming.
• terrible (adjective)
- aweinspiring,
- un nerving,
- inconvenient,
- most petrifying,
- un-nerving,
- more unnerving,
- awe inspiring,
- in-convenient,
- more petrifying,
- more dreaded,
- in convenient,
- most unnerving,
- most dreaded.
• thin (adjective)
- 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.
• threadbare (adjective)
- cliched,
- well-worn,
- imitative.
• two-bit (adjective)
- twobit,
- two bit.
• unadvantageous (adjective)
- un advantageous,
- un-advantageous.
• underdeveloped (adjective)
• underprivileged (adjective)
- disadvantaged.
• unfavorable (adjective)
- 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.
• unfortunate (adjective)
- 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.
• unfortunate, unhappy (adjective)
- luckless,
- unlucky,
- ill-fated.
• unsatisfactory (adjective)
- 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.
• unseemly (adjective)
- 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.
• unwashed (adjective)
- de-classed,
- de classed,
- un-washed,
- un washed.
• wanting (adjective)
- co-oked,
- most unfulfilled,
- most cooked,
- unfulfilled,
- un-fulfilled,
- co oked,
- more cooked,
- un fulfilled,
- more away,
- most away,
- more unfulfilled.
• weak (adjective)
- reedy,
- unstressed,
- forceless,
- unaccented,
- weakest.
• weak, unfertile (adjective)
- exhausted,
- depleted,
- impaired,
- fruitless.
• woeful (adjective)
- more agonized,
- most agonized,
- most racked,
- most grieving,
- more racked,
- more tortured,
- most anguished,
- most tortured,
- heartsick,
- more anguished,
- more grieving,
- Racked.
• worse (adjective)
- not so good.
• worthless (adjective)
- 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.
• wretched (adjective)
- more bummed,
- most bummed,
- in pits.
n.
- 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.
- 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.
- infertile,
- the least/less privileged,
- barren,
- the poor,
- the needy,
- dirt farmer,
- beggar,
- sterile,
- white trash,
- unproductive,
- peasant,
- the dispossessed,
- the have-nots.
- derisory,
- meagre,
- bum,
- good,
- tight,
- in short/limited supply,
- not go far.
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- pity.
• beggarly (noun)
- beggarly.
• bust (noun)
- bust.
• deficient (noun)
- deficient.
• group (noun)
- poor people.
• hapless (noun)
- hapless.
• hardscrabble (noun)
- hardscrabble.
• impoverished (noun)
- impoverished.
• indigent (noun)
- indigent.
• inferior (noun)
- scrub,
- substandard,
- low-grade.
• in straitened circumstances (noun)
- in straitened circumstances.
• mediocre (noun)
- mediocre.
• misfortunate (noun)
- misfortunate.
• pitiable (noun)
- pitiable.
• pitiful (noun)
- pitiful.
• resourceless (noun)
- resourceless.
• skint (noun)
- skint.
• stony-broke (noun)
- stony-broke.
• unfruitful (noun)
- unfruitful.
• unprovided for (noun)
- unprovided for.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)
- behaviour.
Other synonyms:
- down,
- puny,
- below,
- iffy,
- straiten,
- unfit,
- third class.
- badly,
- crack-up.
- jar.
• bankrupt
- insolvent,
- unfunded.
• flimsy
- papery.
• horrible
- horrendous.
• out-of-date
- Superseded.
• terrible
- dreadful.

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Independent
- Adjective
  difficult, disabled, helpless, lackluster, meager, nasty, pitiful, powerless, rough, tenuous, terrible, unscrupulous, less-favoured, poverty-related.
- Proper noun, singular
  Does, concerns, issues, tools.
- Noun, plural
  dwellers, exports, civilians.
- Verb, past tense
  Carried, Got.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  struggling.
- Verb, past participle
  considered.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  looks.
Other Related
- 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.
- Proper noun, singular
  disadvantaged, inadequate, insufficient, poorest, poverty, poorer.
- Noun, plural
  poverty, paupers, have-nots.
- Noun, singular or mass
  destitute, disadvantaged, inadequate, indigent, insufficient, needy, pauper, poorest, poverty, underprivileged, poorer, resource-poor, pro-poor, non-poor.

Homophones for Poor:

poore.

Hypernym for Poor:

n.
- group
  homeless, needy.

Hyponym for Poor:

n.
- group
  people.

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