poor | Lernwerd

Forms

1.With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
- The poorest of the poor are truly destitute, with so few assets they are basically shackless.
- When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.
2.Of low quality.
- That was a poor performance.
3.Worthy of pity.
- Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
- This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
- Mr. Campion sighed. ‘Poor man,’ he said. ‘He sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.’
4.Deficient in a specified way.
- Cow's milk is poor in iron.

1.the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
2.The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
- The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.
- The poor are always with us.
- The rich are often so insulated from reality that they think the poor have extra money they could save for more than a short time.
3.A poor person.
- He had given somewhat to every poore in the Parish.
- The poors are at it again.
- I don't understand, Simmons! I have all the money in the world, but I'm still unhappy! […] It must be the poors! Those leeches have been stealing my happiness somehow!

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-?

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w(o)p(o)rh₃o-

Proto-Italic *paw(o)paro-?

Latin dīvesinflu.

Latin pauper

Old French povrebor.

Middle English povre

English poor