poor

Adjective

• unsatisfactory
  • a poor light for reading
    
  • poor morale
    
  • expectations were poor
    

• 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
    

• lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
  • a poor land
    
  • the area was poor in timber and coal
    
  • food poor in nutritive value
    

• characterized by or indicating poverty
  • the country had a poor economy
    
  • they lived in the poor section of town
    

• having little money or few possessions
  • deplored the gap between rich and poor countries
    
  • the proverbial poor artist living in a garret
    

• 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
    
  • Oh, you poor thing
    
  • his poor distorted limbs
    
  • a wretched life
    

Noun

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
  • the urban poor need assistance
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  inadequate , short , hapless , miserable , misfortunate , pathetic , piteous , pitiable , pitiful , wretched , poor people
• Antonyms: 
  rich , rich people