poor

With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.

Of low quality.

That was a poor performance.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

Worthy of pity.

Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!

This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.

Deficient in a specified way.

Cow's milk is poor in iron.

Inadequate, insufficient.

I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

That I have wronged no Man, will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.

A poor person.

The poors are at it again.

...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...

Synonym of poor cod.

Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.

It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.

To become poor.

The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.

To call poor.

Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.