Poorname

• 1

  A surname

pooradj/pʊɚ/

• 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.
  • England is growne to ſuch a paſſe of late, That rich men triumph to ſee the poore beg at their gate.
• 2

  Of low quality.

  • That was a poor performance.
  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
• 3

  Worthy of pity.

  • Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
  • This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
• 4

  Deficient in a specified way.

  • Cow's milk is poor in iron.
• 5

  Inadequate, insufficient.

  • I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
  • Business is poor right now.
• 6

  Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

  • Blessed are the poor in spirit.

poornoun/pʊɚ/

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  The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

  • ...when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might haue bin sold for much, and giuen to the poore. When Iesus vnderstood it, he said vnto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good worke vpon me. For ye haue the poore alwayes with you, but me ye haue not alwayes.
  • Harry Truman used to say that 13 or 14 million Americans had their interests represented in Washington, but that the rest of the people had to depend on the President of the United States. That is how I felt about the 35 million American poor. They had no voice and no champion. Whatever the cost, I was determined to represent them. Through me they would have an advocate and, I believed, new hope.
• 2

  card-gamesgamesthe second-to-last placer in Tycoon

poornoun/pʊɚ/

• 1

  A poor person.

  • The poors are at it again.
  • ...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny...
• 2

  obsoleteSynonym of poor cod.

poorverb/pʊɚ/

• 1

  rareSynonym of impoverish, to make poor.

  • It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
• 2

  obsoleteTo become poor.

  • The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.
• 3

  obsoleteTo call someone poor.

  • Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.