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(satellite adjective) unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale" |
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(satellite adjective) low in degree; "expectations were poor" |
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(adjective) having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" |
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Antonyms: rich |
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(adjective) badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value" |
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Antonyms: rich |
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(adjective) characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a poor economy" |
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Antonyms: rich |
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(satellite adjective) yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" |
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Synonyms: hardscrabble |
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(satellite adjective) not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
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Synonyms: inadequate, short |
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(satellite adjective) moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy" |
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Synonyms: mediocre, second-rate |
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(satellite adjective) deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
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Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
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