All poor synonyms
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P p adj poor
- low-down β If someone gives you the low-down on a person or thing, they tell you all the important information about them.
- grotty β seedy; wretched; dirty.
- down and out β downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.
- catchpenny β designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- cheesy β Cheesy food is food that tastes or smells of cheese.
- cheap β Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
- beggared β a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- godawful β extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- heeler β a person who heels shoes.
- lowly β humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
- cruddy β dirty or unpleasant
- dogeared β (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- deprived β Deprived people or people from deprived areas do not have the things that people consider to be essential in life, for example acceptable living conditions or education.
- moneyless β any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- commiserable β worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- crappy β If you describe something as crappy, you think it is of very poor quality. Many people consider this word offensive.
- hard up β not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- for the birds β any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- bad off β If you are bad off, you are in a bad situation.
- defective β If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- low β to utter by or as by lowing.
- mini β miniskirt.
- few and far between β not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- cast down β If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- measly β Informal. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance.
- controvertible β to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- derisory β If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
- miserable β wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- bad β If you say that it is bad that something happens, you mean it is unacceptable, unfortunate, or wrong.
- in-effective β not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- meager β deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- cleaned out β free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- currish β of or like a cur; rude or bad-tempered
- dependent β To be dependent on something or someone means to need them in order to succeed or be able to survive.
- terrible β distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
adjective poor
- forceless β Without force.
- woeful β full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- disappointing β failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- mean β to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- junky β of the nature of junk; trashy.
- waterish β somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- bare β If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.
- deficient β If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- exiguous β Very small in size or amount.
- junker β any old or discarded material, as metal, paper, or rags.
- base β The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
- embarrassed β Feeling or showing embarrassment.
- dwarfed β a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- homeless β without a home: a homeless child.