Whats the meaning "poor"?

Question

Tell me your meaning of "poor" everybody has different meaning for everything and anything. Some people try to use the system "SRS" when they are not in that big of need. I want the meaning and I mean the real meaning of "poor"?

Answer 1

Poor means not rich or not happy.

Answer 2

poor means the one who does not have any money.he is not as rich as us.may be we say that he belongs to an economically backward claas.

Answer 3

To be poor is to have no money or not much money. and No means to fulfill anything you would like to do. Poor means relying on others to take care of you. Usually the poor have grown up underpriveleged and cant seem to break free of the cycle of poverty. The poor often get jealous of people who have means to fulfill their dreams and goals.

Answer 4

these are meaning ======

without enoiugh money to live comfortably .

inadequate .

ess good than is usual , expected .

inferior .

Answer 5

sum1 who is below povety line

Answer 6

Poor can refer to a state of poverty or to under-performance.

Ex. The family was so poor that they could not afford the food they needed to survive.

Ex. Jimmy performed poorly on the exam.

Answer 7

Poor is when you cannot shed the dead skin of "self".  

Answer 8

some with a lack of money or a person with less than aravge amount of money for that nation or city

Answer 9

I think that if you can not afford to purchase any of your wants and can only cover your needs you are considered to be 'poor'.  (ie. no disposable income).

Answer 10

having little or no money, goods, or other means of support

Answer 11

Poor means under par. Something that is not sufficient enough for you. It can be a performance, an action, or anything that could be explained with positive terms like 'good'.

Answer 12

Having little or no wealth and few or no possessions. poorness, poorer, poorest  

Answer 13

acking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society : people who were too poor to afford a telephone | [as n. ] ( the poor) the gap between the rich and the poor has widened.

• (of a place) inhabited by people without sufficient money : a poor area with run-down movie theaters and overcrowded schools.

2 worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality : her work was poor | many people are eating a very poor diet.

• [ predic. ] ( poor in) deficient or lacking in : the water is poor in nutrients.

• dated used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself : he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man.

3 [ attrib. ] (of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy : they inquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip.

PHRASES

( as) poor as a church mouse (or as church mice) extremely poor.

poor little rich boy (or girl) a wealthy young person whose money brings them no contentment (often used as an expression of mock sympathy).

the poor man's —— an inferior or cheaper substitute for the thing specified : corduroy has always been the poor man's velvet.

poor relation a person or thing that is considered inferior or subordinate to others of the same type or group : for many years radio has been the poor relation of the media.

take a poor view of regard with disfavor or disapproval.

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French poure, from Latin pauper.

Thesaurus

poor

adjective

1 a poor family poverty-stricken, penniless, moneyless, impoverished, low-income, necessitous, impecunious, indigent, needy, destitute, pauperized, unable to make ends meet, without a sou; insolvent, in debt, without a cent (to one's name); informal (flat) broke, hard up, cleaned out, strapped; formal penurious. See note at rich . antonym rich, wealthy.

2 poor workmanship substandard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior; appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, unsatisfactory, second-rate, third-rate, tinpot, shoddy, crude, lamentable, deplorable, inadequate, unacceptable; informal crummy, lame, crappy, dismal, bum, rotten. antonym superior.

3 a poor crop meager, scanty, scant, paltry, disappointing, limited, reduced, modest, insufficient, inadequate, sparse, spare, deficient, insubstantial, skimpy, short, small, lean, slender; informal measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling; formal exiguous. antonym satisfactory, good.

4 poor soil unproductive, barren, unyielding, unfruitful; arid, sterile. antonym fertile, productive.

5 the waters are poor in nutrients deficient in, lacking in, wanting in, weak in; short of, low on.

6 you poor thing! unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched. antonym lucky.