poor

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poor
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Meanings
adjective
  • lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.
    E.g. they were too poor to afford a telephone
  • of a low or inferior standard or quality.
    E.g. many people are eating a very poor diet
  • (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy.
    E.g. they enquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip

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