[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

poor \poor\, a. compar. poorer ?; 254; superl. poorest.
   oe. poure or povre, of. povre, f. pauvre, l. pauper; the
   first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few see
   paucity, few, and the second to parare to prepare,
   procure. see few, and cf. parade, pauper, poverty.
   1. destitute of property; wanting in material riches or
      goods; needy; indigent.
      1913 webster

   note: 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 who are not rich; as, a poor man or woman; poor
         people.
         1913 webster

   2. law so completely destitute of property as to be
      entitled to maintenance from the public.
      1913 webster

   3. hence, in very various applications: destitute of such
      qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be
      expected; as:
      a wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean;
          emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
          "seven other kine came up after them, poor and very
          ill-favored and lean-fleshed." --gen. xli. 19.
      b wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as,
          poor health; poor spirits. "his genius . . . poor and
          cowardly." --bacon.
      c of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby;
          mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. "a poor
          vessel." --clarendon.
      d destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; --
          said of land; as, poor soil.
      e destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor
          discourse; a poor picture.
      f without prosperous conditions or good results;
          unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor
          business; the sick man had a poor night.
      g inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor
          excuse.
          1913 webster

                that i have wronged no man will be a poor plea
                or apology at the last day.       --calamy.
          1913 webster

   4. worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a
      term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and
      sometimes as a word of contempt.
      1913 webster

            and for mine own poor part,
            look you, i'll go pray.               --shak.
      1913 webster

            poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. --prior.
      1913 webster

   5. free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
      "blessed are the poor in spirit." --matt. v. 3.
      1913 webster

   poor law, a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or
      support of the poor.

   poor man's treacle bot., garlic; -- so called because it
      was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. eng
      --dr. prior.

   poor man's weatherglass bot., the red-flowered pimpernel
      anagallis arvensis, which opens its blossoms only in
      fair weather.

   poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an english parish,
      for the relief or support of the poor.

   poor soldier zool., the friar bird.

   the poor, 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." --franklin.
      1913 webster
see also:
poorer poorest paucity few parade pauper 
poverty poor law poor man's treacle poor man's weatherglass anagallis arvensis 
poor rate poor soldier the poor 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

poor \poor\, n. zool.
   a small european codfish gadus minutus; -- called also
   power cod.
   1913 webster
see also:
gadus minutus power cod 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

poor
     adj 1: moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality
            from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor
            spy" syn: mediocre, second-rate
     2: 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 distorted limbs"; "a
        wretched life" syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
         pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched
     3: having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap
        between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor
        artist living in a garret" ant: rich
     4: characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country
        had a poor economy" ant: rich
     5: low in degree; "expectations were poor"
     6: badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a
        poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food
        poor in nutritive value" ant: rich
     7: 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" syn: inadequate,
         short
     8: unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"
     9: yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor
        soil" syn: hardscrabble
see also:
mediocre second-rate hapless miserable misfortunate pathetic 
piteous pitiable pitiful wretched rich 
inadequate short hardscrabble 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

390 moby thesaurus words for "poor":
   dp, lenten, mickey mouse, spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious,
   against, amateurish, arrant, artless, ascetic, atrocious,
   attenuated, austere, awful, bad, badly off, bankrupt, bare-handed,
   barren, base, beggared, beggarly, below par, beneath contempt,
   broke, bumbling, cadaverous, cheap, cheeseparing, cheesy, chinchy,
   chintzy, chronic poor, chronic poverty area, coarse, common, con,
   contemptible, corpselike, crumbling, crummy, debased, decrepit,
   defective, deficient, degraded, depleted, depraved,
   depressed class, depressed population, despicable, destitute,
   destitution, dirty, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving,
   discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, disgusting, disillusioned,
   disintegrating, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, distressed,
   down to bedrock, down-and-out, dwarfed, dwarfish, emacerated,
   emaciate, emaciated, embarrassed, empty-handed, execrable,
   exhausted, exiguous, famished, faulty, feeble, feeling the pinch,
   flagrant, flat, flat broke, flawed, flimsy, fortuneless, foul,
   fourth-class, frugal, fruitless, fulsome, gaudy, ghetto-dwellers,
   gimcracky, grave, gross, haggard, half-assed, half-starved,
   hapless, hard up, heinous, hollow-eyed, homely, humble,
   humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ill, ill off,
   ill-equipped, ill-fated, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-starred,
   impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment,
   in queer street, in narrow circumstances, in need, in rags,
   in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want,
   inadept, inadequate, inapt, inattentive, inconclusive,
   inconsequential, indigence, indigent, indignant, inefficient,
   inept, inexpert, inferior, infertile, infirm, infrequent,
   inglorious, innocuous, insignificant, insolvent, insubstantial,
   insufficient, irregular, jejune, land-poor, lean, least, limited,
   little, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade, low-quality,
   low-test, lowest, lowliest, lowly, luckless, lumpen, mangy,
   marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, measly, mediocre, meretricious,
   miserable, miserly, modest, moneyless, monstrous, narrow,
   necessitous, neediness, needy, nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious,
   odious, on short commons, on the edge, opposed, opposing,
   out of pocket, outcasts, paltry, parsimonious, pathetic, pauperism,
   pauperized, peaked, peaky, pedestrian, penniless, penurious,
   penury, petty, piddling, pinched, pitiable, pitiful, plain, poky,
   poorish, poorly off, poorness, poverty subculture,
   poverty-stricken, privation, punk, puny, rank, rare, reduced,
   reptilian, rotten, rotten at, rubbishy, ruined, sad, scabby, scant,
   scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy,
   scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best,
   second-class, second-rate, seedy, seldom met with, seldom seen,
   shabby, shoddy, short, short of cash, short of funds,
   short of money, shorthanded, shriveled, simple, skeletal,
   skill-less, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim,
   slipshod, slum-dwellers, small, sorry, spare, sparing, sparse,
   spotty, sprinkled, squalid, squeezed, star-crossed, starvation,
   starved, starveling, starving, sterile, stingy, stinted,
   stone-broke, stony, straitened, strapped, stunted, subsistence,
   substandard, tabetic, tabid, tacky, teachable, the disadvantaged,
   the dispossessed, the distressed, the down-and-out,
   the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other america,
   the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged, the urban poor, thin,
   third-class, third-rate, thoughtless, tight, tinny, trashy,
   trifling, trivial, trumpery, turned-off, two-for-a-cent,
   two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unacceptable,
   unappreciative, unapproving, unapt, uncomplimentary, undeft,
   under par, underdeveloped nation, underfed, undermanned,
   undernourished, underprivileged, undexterous, undextrous,
   undistinguished, unfacile, unfavorable, unfed, unfirm, unfortunate,
   unfruitful, unhappy, unimportant, unintelligent, unlucky,
   unmentionable, unmoneyed, unnourishing, unnutritious,
   unpretentious, unproductive, unprofessional, unproficient,
   unprosperous, unproved, unprovided, unreplenished, unrigorous,
   unsatisfactory, unskillful, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsturdy,
   unsubstantial, unsupplied, unsustained, valueless, vile, want,
   wasted, watered, watery, weak, weazeny, welfare rolls, wiped out,
   withered, wizened, worthless, wraithlike, wretched

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

poor
   the mosaic legislation regarding the poor is specially
   important. 1. they had the right of gleaning the fields lev.
   19:9, 10; deut. 24:19,21.
   
     2. in the sabbatical year they were to have their share of
   the produce of the fields and the vineyards ex. 23:11; lev.
   25:6.
   
     3. in the year of jubilee they recovered their property
   lev. 25:25-30.
   
     4. usury was forbidden, and the pledged raiment was to be
   returned before the sun went down ex. 22:25-27; deut.
   24:10-13. the rich were to be generous to the poor deut.
   15:7-11.
   
     5. in the sabbatical and jubilee years the bond-servant was
   to go free deut. 15:12-15; lev. 25:39-42, 47-54.
   
     6. certain portions from the tithes were assigned to the
   poor deut. 14:28, 29; 26:12, 13.
   
     7. they shared in the feasts deut. 16:11, 14; neh. 8:10.
   
     8. wages were to be paid at the close of each day lev.
   19:13.
   
     in the new testament luke 3:11; 14:13; acts 6:1; gal. 2:10;
   james 2:15, 16 we have similar injunctions given with reference
   to the poor. begging was not common under the old testament,
   while it was so in the new testament times luke 16:20, 21,
   etc.. but begging in the case of those who are able to work is
   forbidden, and all such are enjoined to "work with their own
   hands" as a christian duty 1 thess. 4:11; 2 thess. 3:7-13; eph.
   4:28. this word is used figuratively in matt. 5:3; luke 6:20; 2
   cor. 8:9; rev. 3:17.
   

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