Poor Synonyms and Antonyms
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Lacking worldly goods
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
- destitute
- impecunious
- indigent
- insolvent
- impoverished
- beggarly
- necessitous
- needy
- penniless
- poverty-stricken
- penurious
- down-and-out
- broke
- underprivileged
- disadvantaged
- deprived
- starved
- starving
- straitened
- pinched
- distressed
- in reduced circumstances
- beggared
- famine-stricken
- underdeveloped
- empty-handed
- ill-provided
- ill-furnished
- in want
- in penury
- suffering privation
- in-need
- feeling the pinch
- unable to make ends meet
- poor-as-a-church-mouse
- hard-up
- strapped for money
- out at the elbows
- strapped
Antonyms:
Lacking excellences
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
- base
- cheap
- miserable
- paltry
- shoddy
- cheesy
- contemptible
- faulty
- defective
- insignificant
- trashy
- inferior
- pitiful
- humble
- mean
- despicable
- inadequate
- sorry
- sleazy
- worthless
- shabby
- squalid
- crummy
- unsatisfactory
- pitiable
- dwarfed
- diminutive
- ordinary
- common
- mediocre
- coarse
- vulgar
- imperfect
- smaller
- lesser
- below-par
- subnormal
- under average
- second-rate
- reduced
- deficient
- lower
- subordinate
- minor
- lousy
- secondary
- second-hand
- pedestrian
- beggarly
- homely
- homespun
- fourth-rate
- tawdry
- abject
- petty
- angular
- unimportant
- bad
- bankrupt
- bare
- flimsy
- barren
- threadbare
- badly made
- less than good
- bony
- unwholesome
- broke
- lacking in quality
- dowdy
- undergrade
- second-class
- valueless
- depleted
- easy
- deprived
- gaudy
- mass-produced
- gimcrack
- destitute
- rotten
- disadvantaged
- catchpenny
- distressed
- trivial
- effete infecund
- trifling
- eleemosynary
- unsuccessful
- emaciated
- second best
- empty
- tasteless
- exhausted
- insipid
- barbarous
- vile
- feeble
- disgusting
- fruitless
- gaunt
- rustic
- crude
- haggard
- outlandish
- odd
- hungry
- rock bottom
- ill
- garish
- impecunious
- flashy
- showy
- impoverished
- inelegant
- loud
- inarable
- unsightly
- inauspicious
- inartistic
- affected
- indigent
- ramshackle
- pretentious
- infertile
- tumble-down
- glaring
- artificial
- insolvent
- flaunting
- insufficient
- newfangled
- lacking
- out-of-date
- lean
- old-fashioned
- meager
- junky
- two-bit
- schlock
- necessitous
- third-rate
- kitschy
- needy
- raunchy
- corny
- peaked
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty -stricken
- poverty-stricken
- rawboned
- resourceless
- scanty
- scrawny
- seedy
- schlocky
- skinny
- sordid
- spare
- sparse
- sterile
- straitened
- strapped
- subpar
- tacky
- thin
- underprivileged
- undesirable
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unlucky
- unpropitious
- wretched
Antonyms:
Lacking vigor or health
(Adjective)
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
- needy
- forgotten man
- the unemployed
- underdogs
- impecuniosity
- the underprivileged
- impoverishment
- beggars
- poor people
- the impoverished masses
- indigence
- second-class-citizen
- have-nots
- mendicancy
- pauperization
- poverty
Antonyms:
- rich
- rich people
Synonyms:
(Verb)
- depauperate
- impoverish
- pauperize
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