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Poor

adjective

(compar. poorer; superl. poorest)

1.

Deserving or inciting pity. Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched. "Miserable victims of war" , "The shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic" , "Piteous appeals for help" , "Pitiable homeless children" , "A pitiful fate" , "Oh, you poor thing" , "His poor distorted limbs" , "A wretched life"

2.

Having little money or few possessions. "The proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

3.

Characterized by or indicating poverty. "They lived in the poor section of town"

4.

Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances. "The area was poor in timber and coal" , "Food poor in nutritive value"

5.

Not sufficient to meet a need. Synonyms: inadequate, short. "A poor salary" , "Money is short" , "On short rations" , "Food is in short supply" , "Short on experience"

6.

Unsatisfactory. "Poor morale" , "Expectations were poor"

noun

1.

People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group). Synonym: poor people.

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... advanced, and when within two hundred yards swung her broadside to the enemy and poured in a rain of shells. The Germans fought back gamely, but with the first success of the Russians they seemed to have lost their heads and fired wildly. Their aim was poor, and ...

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... young and conceited, feed him on flattery—nice eyes but funny nose—poor conversationalist but works hard. Dreadful dancer. Pretends indifference but awfully soft in spots. ...

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... Baltimore educating Negro children as early as 1829.[502] The Rt. Rev. John England, the first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, who held his office from 1820 until his death in 1842, cared much for the poor friendless slaves. He began to teach them, founding a school for males under the care of a priest, and a school for girls under the care of the Sisters of Mercy. He was compelled to suspend the slave schools by ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various

... of the proper use of transformers is quite simple but very important in setting up vacuum-tube circuits. To overlook it in building or buying your radio set will mean poor efficiency. Whenever you have two parts of a vacuum-tube circuit to connect together be sure and buy only a transformer which is designed to work between the two impedances (or resistances) which ...

— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills

... that the treasure they hid away should go to other good, civilized people when the Incas had departed from the face of the earth. Think of the good that could be done with such wealth, should it fall into the proper hands! Think of the good to the poor people of Peru, with the right kind of mission work done among them! I tell you all that the responsibility of this discovery is as great as its value in dollars. What do you think ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

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