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Poor
POOR, a. [L. pauper.]
1. Wholly destitute of property, or not having property sufficient for a comfortable subsistence; needy. It is often synonymous with indigent, and with necessitous, denoting extreme want; it is also applied to persons who are not entirely destitute of property, but are not rich; as a poor man or woman; poor people
2. In law, so destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
3. Destitute of strength, beauty or dignity; barren; mean; jejune; as a poor composition; a poor essay; a poor discourse.
4. Destitute of value, worth or importance; of little use; trifling.
That I have wronged no man, will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
5. Paltry; mean; of little value; as a poor coat; a poor house.
6. Destitute of fertility; barren; exhausted; as poor land. The ground is become poor.
7. Of little worth; unimportant; as in my poor opinion.
8. Unhappy; pitiable.
Vex'd sailors curse the rain
For which poor shepherds pray'd in vain.
9. Mean; depressed; low; dejected; destitute of spirit.
A soothsayer made Antonius believe that his genius,which was otherwise brave, was, in the presence of Octavianus, poor and cowardly.
10. Lean; emaciated; as a poor horse. The ox is poor.
11. Small, or of a bad quality; as a poor crop; a poor harvest.
12. Uncomfortable; restless; ill. The patient has had a poor night.
13. Destitute of saving grace. Rev 3.
14. In general, wanting good qualities, or the qualities which render a thing valuable, excellent, proper, or sufficient for its purpose; as a poor pen; a poor ship; a poor carriage; poor fruit; poor bread; poor wine, etc.
15. A word of tenderness or pity; dear.
Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing.
16. A word of slight contempt; wretched.
The poor monk never saw many of the decrees and councils he had occasion to use.
17. The poor, collectively, used as a noun; those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy; in a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public.
I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves.
Poor in spirit, in a Scriptural sense, humble; contrite; abased in one's own sight by a sense of guilt. Mat 5.
poor appears in definitions for these words:
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Agape Agrarian Almoner Alms Alms-giver Alms-house Ambry Annats Bad Bare Barely Baseless Bedehouse Beggarly Bestor Bidale Bow Burse Carob Cast Cavezon Cease Certain Charitable Charitableness Charitably Charity Clinch Come Commiseration Complaisance Concern Condition Consider Contemptuously Corban Countenance Creature Deacon Death Decay Degeneracy Depauperate Depauperated Depauperating Despicably Dispensary Dispense Disregard Dust Earning Eleemosynary Embase Entreaty Equity Expel Extol Extravagant Fade Familiar Fence Filch First-born Folk Forward Freely Frugality Garreteer Great Grind Grow Guiniad Halt Hang Heath Hospitaller Hungry Ignorant Impart Impoor Impotence Impoverish Impoverisher Impoverishing Impulsive Incident Indifference Indigent Itself Jackalent Jade Kindly Knavish Lamely Lamentable Land Lean Liberal Light Lob Maintenance Meager Meagerly Meagerness Mean Meanly Meanness Mendicant Miserabale Miserableness Miserably Monstrous Moralize Mortal Mother Needy Neglect Negligent News On Overseer Pack Parable Parish Pauper Pauperism Payable Peaking Penniless Penurious Pilled-garlick Piteous Pity Point Poor Poorly Poorness Potato Poverty Prank Premium Premonstrants Prestimony Provision Relieve Reputation Respect Rhymist Right Rob Rogue Rug Run Savingness Scald Scanty Scatter Scrannel Selectman Settlement Shame Smart Some Sorriness Sorry Soul Specht Starved Starveling Starving Stretch Stuff Suppliant Supply Table Terribly Thing Though Timid To Township Trifle Unable Unbought World Wrest Wretch Wretched Wretchedly Wretchedness Wring
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