Poor synonyms
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The definition of destitute refers to not having the basic necessities of life.
Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
Insolvent is defined as being bankrupt and unable to pay debts.
The definition of impecunious is a person without any money.
(Archaic) In need, lacking.
Deprived of some of the basic necessities or advantages of life, such as adequate housing, medical care, or educational facilities.
in reduced circumstances
Lacking worldly goods
Of inferior or mediocre quality or value.
Having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication within the contemporary range of possibility; developing:
Low or lower in order, status, rank, etc.; subordinate
Lacking worldly goods
strapped for money
Lacking worldly goods
(Archaic) Lacking; destitute (of)
In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
Reduced to poverty.
Entirely without money.
Subject to deprivation; poor.
Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance.
lacking in quality
Lacking excellences
To reduce to poverty; make poor.
The definition of sleazy is shabby, a low morals person or a flimsy texture.
have-nots
Alternative spelling of have nots.
satisfactory (antonym)
Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient
Poverty-stricken; destitute.
famine-stricken
Lacking worldly goods
empty-handed
Bringing, gaining, or carrying away nothing
The definition of deficient is a person of thing that is incomplete or lacking something needed.
third-rate
Inferior; very poor
effete infecund
Lacking excellences
Designating or of an area in which there is widespread unemployment, poverty, etc.
beggared
Lacking worldly goods
unable to make ends meet
Lacking worldly goods
The definition of needy is someone who is poor, or someone who demands a lot of care or attention.
Of little significance or importance.
Second or lower in rank or importance; not primary:
second-hand
Alternative form of secondhand.
Undistinguished; ordinary:
Made of a homespun fabric:
fourth-rate
Lacking excellences
Having or showing a tendency to make much of small matters
Not important; insignificant or petty.
That has lost freshness or novelty; stale
badly made
Lacking excellences
Wretched; miserable; sordid
Deserving to be despised; contemptible
Lacking excellences
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
The definition of subordinate is someone who is lower in rank to another or subject to another's control.
less than good
Lacking excellences
ill-furnished
Lacking worldly goods
under average
Lacking excellences
Lower is defined as in a lesser or inferior place, or something less in quality or value.
Of or considered of small value:
Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
Of the class, rank, excellence, etc. next below the highest; of secondary quality
Having no value; worthless.
The definition of gaudy is something that is bright and ornate, but overdone to the point of being tacky.
mass-produced
Produced by mass production
catchpenny
Designed and made to sell without concern for quality; cheap.
Having little value or importance; trivial
Having an unfavorable outcome:
Lacking excellences
Without taste or flavor; flat; insipid
Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull.
Morally base or evil; wicked; depraved; sinful
Charmingly simple or unsophisticated in a manner considered typical of country living.
Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
Conspicuously unconventional; bizarre.
Lacking excellences
The definition of garish is something showy, gaudy or overdone in a tasteless way.
Giving a momentary or superficial impression of brilliance.
Lacking refinement or polish; not elegant.
Displeasing to the eye
Lacking in artistic ability.
Influenced or changed by something
Loose and rickety; likely to fall to pieces; shaky
Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case:
Fond of novelty.
The definition of out of date is someone or something that is old fashioned or that is no longer cool, hip or cutting edge.
Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.
Shabby or cheap:
Meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable:
(US, idiomatic, slang) insignificant or worthless
schlock
Schlock means cheap or trashy.
Obscene, lewd, or vulgar:
The definition of corny is old-fashioned or tiresomely simple.
The definition of cheesy is something that smells or feels like cheese, or something that is made with poor quality, or something that is corny or foolish.
Insufficient; not enough
Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense.
The definition of feeble is someone who is weak or a half-hearted attempt or something that is faint or unconvincing.
The definition of puny is something insufficient in size or strength.
Not firm or strong physically; weak; feeble, as from old age
The definition of indisposed is unwilling, or slightly ill.
Not capable of sustaining crops or vegetation:
(Economics) Adding nothing to exchangeable value.
Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation:
The definition of unfortunate is unlucky, or something that is regrettable or inappropriate.
Arousing or deserving pity, sometimes mixed with scorn or contempt
The definition of hapless is an unlucky person.
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
forgotten man
A person or class of persons that is treated with undeserved neglect or disregard.
the unemployed
underdogs
Plural form of underdog
the underprivileged
the impoverished masses
second-class-citizen
(Programming, languages) Synonym of second-class object.
wealthy (antonym)
Well supplied:
well-to-do (antonym)
ruined (related)
Lacking worldly goods
wanting (related)
Absent; lacking:
faulty (related)
Having a fault or faults; defective, blemished, imperfect, or erroneous
inadequate (related)
Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
unsatisfactory (related)
Inadequate, substandard or not satisfactory
weak (related)
Lacking vitality; feeble; infirm
sterile (related)
The definition of sterile is something totally clean and free from bacteria, a living thing that is not able to reproduce sexually and create offspring, or something that is lacking in interest or vitality.
pauper (related)
(Historical) A person who lives on charity, esp. on tax-supported charity
Being of the most miserable kind; wretched:
Lacking grace or smoothness; awkward:
Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics:
Threadbare; much worn.
Having or showing little or no honor, courage, or decency; mean; ignoble; contemptible
Having many bones
(Obs.) Contemptuous
Relating to or being uranium whose fissionable isotope uranium 235 has been mostly removed, consisting primarily of the remaining isotope uranium 238.
Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
The definition of empty is having or containing nothing, or having no worth, meaning or value.
Depleted; in a state of exhaustion.
(Rare) Without fruit.
Thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated
Having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness; gaunt; drawn
(Hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]
inarable
Not arable.
Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
Having little or no meaning.
Not sufficient; inadequate.
Lacking excellences
The definition of lean is with little fat.
Tending toward or characterized by cruelty or violence:
The definition of miserable is someone or something that is unhappy, suffering or in a condition of misery, or something that is bad or inferior.
Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible:
Very thin
Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy.
poverty -stricken
Lacking excellences
Having a lean, gaunt frame with prominent bones.
resourceless
Without resources.
Very thin; skinny and bony
Full of seeds
Shabby means unfair or low-quality.
Contemptible; mean; low
The definition of skinny is a very thin person or thing.
Squalid; depressingly wretched
Feeling or expressing sorrow:
Not elaborate or ornate; simple:
Poor
subpar
Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production.
Lacking style or good taste; tawdry:
Of little volume or resonance; high-pitched and weak
Deprived of a decent standard of living, adequate education, and economic security through poverty, discrimination, etc.
Not likely to please; objectionable:
Likely to be a hindrance; disadvantageous:
Bringing ill luck
The definition of worthless is having no value.
The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
The state of being impoverished.
The condition of being indigent
The act or state of being a mendicant
The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
Poverty is the state of being poor, having little money or being in need of a specific quality.
depauperate
To stunt the growth of.
To make someone a pauper; to impoverish
superior (antonym)
Above average in quality; excellent
adequate (antonym)
Barely satisfactory; acceptable but not remarkable
sufficient (antonym)
Being as much as is needed; adequate; enough.
fortunate (antonym)
The definition of fortunate is someone or something that is lucky or favorable, or someone who is materially well-off.
happy (antonym)
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
great (antonym)
Superior in quality or character; noble:
good (antonym)
Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit.
strong (antonym)
Persuasive, effective, and cogent:
fertile (antonym)
Capable of supporting plant life; favorable to the growth of crops and plants.
rich (antonym)
Highly varied, developed, or complex:
(By extension) inadequate or meagre.
Incapacitated; prostrate.
Unfavorable or unfair:
Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.
Extremely scanty; meager.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
Stinging or capable of stinging
(Informal) Contemptibly slight, worthless, or skimpy
Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
Demanding or arousing pity:
Feeling or showing sorrow or pity; mournful
(Now Rare) Full of ruth; feeling, showing, or arousing pity or sorrow
on-one-s-uppers
big (related)
Conspicuous in position, wealth, or importance; prominent:
excess (related)
Being more than is usual, required, or permitted:
pity (related)
Arousing or deserving pity
Having suffered misfortune; pitiable
Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
poor people
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
rich people (antonym)
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
out at the elbows
Lacking worldly goods
Of ordinary or undistinguished quality.
Rough, especially to the touch:
Crudely indecent:
The definition of imperfect is someone or something that has at least one fault or that is not fully formed or complete.
Smaller in amount, value, or importance, especially in a comparison between two things:
undergrade
Lacking excellences
Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
sick (related)
Unable to produce a profitable yield of crops:
not up to scratch (or snuff)
ill-provided
Lacking worldly goods
in want
Lacking worldly goods
in penury
Lacking worldly goods
suffering privation
Lacking worldly goods
in-need
Lacking worldly goods
feeling the pinch
Lacking worldly goods
Lacking excellences
(Grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
Most widely known; ordinary:
The definition of ordinary is something that is normal or common, that has no distinctive or unusual features.
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
Find another word for poor. In this page you can discover 258 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for poor, like: destitute, poverty-stricken, insolvent, impecunious, necessitous, disadvantaged, in reduced circumstances, second-rate, underdeveloped, inferior and starving.