Definition of Poor

Poor Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent. So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil. Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture. Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night. Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse. Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod. Related Definitions: Also, An, And, Are, Arrogant, As, Barren, Be, Beauty, Business, Called, Clothes, Cod, Codfish, Completely, Contempt, Dejected, Desirable, Destitute, Discourse, Dog, Emaciated, Endearment, Entitled, European, Excuse, Exhausted, Expected, Expression, Fat, Feeble, Fertility, Fitness, Fleshiness, Free, From, Good, Goods, Had, Health, Horse, In, Inadequate, Indigent, Inferior, Insignificant, Insufficient, Land, Lean, Little, Maintenance, Man, Material, Meager, Mean, Meek, Merit, Might, Modesty, Naturally, Needy, Night, Not, Of, Or, Ox, Picture, Pity, Plumpness, Poor, Power, Property, Prosperous, Proud, Public, Qualities, Riches, Said, Self-Assertion, Shabby, Sick, Small, So, Soil, Sometimes, Sterile, Strength, Such, Sympathy, Term, The, To, Unconformable, Unfavorable, Unfortunate, Used, Value, Vigor, Wanting, Without, Word, Worth, Worthy

Poor Quotations Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. Buddha Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. Martin Luther King, Jr. The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. Thomas Jefferson The man of science is a poor philosopher. Albert Einstein We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. Barack Obama

Poor Translations poor in Afrikaans is kwaai, arm, sleg poor in Dutch is erbarmelijk, beklagenswaardig poor in Finnish is kurja poor in French is pauvre, maigre poor in Italian is umile, povero poor in Latin is penuriosus, levidensis, pauper, inops poor in Portuguese is mau, pobre poor in Spanish is pobre