Another word for poor
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Adjective
Having little or no money or wealth
Idioms:See also:Below a standard of quality
See also:Of decidedly inferior quality
See also:Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent
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Another word for poor
Modifier
Lacking worldly goods
Lacking excellences
Lacking fertility
Worthy of pity
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Noun
Synonym Study
- Indigent implies such relative poverty as results in a lack of comforts or luxuries and the endurance of hardships books for indigent children
- Impecunious applies to one who habitually lacks money and often suggests that this results from personal practices an impecunious gambler
- Destitute implies such great poverty that even the means for subsistence, such as food and shelter, are lacking left destitute by the war
- Impoverished ) is applied to one who having once had plenty is now reduced to poverty an impoverished aristocrat
- Poor is the simple, direct term for one who lacks the resources for reasonably comfortable living
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