What is another word for poor?
1271 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pˈʊ͡ə], [ pˈʊə], [ p_ˈʊə]Table of Contents
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.
n.
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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.
Paraphrases for Poor:
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Independent
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Adjective
difficult, lackluster, meager, terrible, pitiful, powerless, helpless, disabled, nasty, less-favoured, poverty-related, tenuous, rough, unscrupulous.
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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
poverty-stricken, worst, mediocre, poor-quality, substandard, pro-poor, precarious, low-quality, inappropriate, inferior, miserable, wretched, deplorable, unfavourable, feeble, resource-poor, unfortunate, destitute, shoddy, lousy, dispossessed, disappointing, inclement, lacklustre, sub-standard, paltry, indigent, depressed, scarce, underdeveloped, deteriorating, underprivileged, dilapidated, appalling, negative, unfavorable, poverty-reducing, scant, dismal, nonperforming, ineffective, pitiable, inadequate, sluggish, Deteriorated, modest, non-performing, needy, well-off, insufficient, lamentable, handicapped, poverty, non-poor, insubstantial, crappy, unhappy, dreadful, harsh, second-rate, disadvantageous, erroneous, dire, nutrient-poor, sore, satisfactory, imperfect, puny, unsound, rotten, disadvantaged.
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Proper noun, singular
poorest, poorer, inadequate, insufficient, poverty, disadvantaged.
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Noun, singular or mass
pro-poor, poorest, resource-poor, destitute, poorer, indigent, pauper, underprivileged, inadequate, needy, insufficient, poverty, non-poor, disadvantaged.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Poor:
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adj.
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all
rich.
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deficient, inadequate
uncommon, abnormal, bold, extraordinary, important, noble, formal, large, nice, brave, tall, refined, big, able, significant, sophisticated, excellent.
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lacking sufficient money
lucky, wealthy, full, happy, affluent, strong, sufficient, fortunate, fertile, great, solvent, adequate, potent, superior.
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weak, unfertile
healthy.
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Other antonyms:
elegant, blooming, productive, flourishing, proliferative, arable, keen, better, fat cat, handsome, worthy, generous, fair, borderline, special, sensational, mediocre, liberal, first class, uninspiring, fancy, jim-dandy, premium, swarming, fecund, minimal, gratifying, tillable, handcrafted, abundant, middling, sylvan, mean, thriving, satisfying, tasteful, unexceptional, average, prolific, polished, useful, ample, unimpressive, exceptional, A1, bursting, so-so, classical, standard, bountiful, fruitful, high-grade.
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all
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n.
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group
rich people.
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group
Homophones for Poor:
- poore.
Hypernym for Poor:
Hyponym for Poor:
n.
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group
people.
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group