English

Adjective

poor (poorer , poorest )

1. with no possessions or money
2. to be pitied

   Oh you poor little thing.

3. of low quality

   That was a poor performance.

Pronunciation

• GenAm : /pʊr/
• RP : /pɔː/ or /pʊə/
• Rhymes:-ʊə(r)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

Homophones

• pour (some accents only)
• pore (some accents only)

Synonyms

• pitiable (2)
• inferior (3)

Antonyms

• rich

Related terms

• a poor man's ...
• dirt poor
• piss-poor
• poor box
• poor relation

Translations

• Catalan: pobre (ca)
• Chinese: 穷 (1), 可怜 (2), 贫乏 (3)
• Czech: chudý
• Dutch: arm (1,2), arme (1,2), berooid (1), beklagenswaardig (2)
• French: pauvre (1), pitoyable (2)
• German: arm (de)
• Frisian: earm (1,2)
• Indonesian: miskin , papa, tak berada , kekurangan
• Irish: bocht
• Italian: povero m, povera f
• Japanese: 貧乏 (びんぼう , binbō), 貧しい (まずしい , mazushii)

  бедный (1,2)

• Slovak: chudobný
• Spanish: pobre (es)

Nominal adjective

the poor

1. those people as a group who have no possessions or money

Translations

• French: les pauvres m pl
• Spanish: lo pobre n