• 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 d
• yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "Poor soil"
• unsatisfactory; "a Poor light for reading"; "Poor morale"
• low in degree; "expectations were Poor"
• having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and Poor countries"; "the proverbial Poor artist living in a garret"
• badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a Poor land"; "the area was Poor in timber and coal"; "food Poor in nutritive value"
• characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a Poor economy"
• 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"
• moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a Poor spy"

'Poor' in other languages