Definition of poor

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Poor (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse..

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Beggarly :: Beggarly (a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible..
Bunchy :: Bunchy (a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor..
Sorrily :: Sorrily (adv.) In a sorry manner; poorly.
Cracker :: Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Garreteer :: Garreteer (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly..
Resistance :: Resistance (n.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm..
Poorliness :: Poorliness (n.) The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.
Seedy :: Seedy (superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat..
Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..
Slim :: Slim (superl.) Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument..
Evil :: Evil (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop..
Slipslop :: Slipslop (n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing..
Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..
Bidale :: Bidale (n.) An invitation of friends to drink ale at some poor man's house, and there to contribute in charity for his relief..
Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) Meanly; without spirit.
Inferior :: Inferior (a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods..
Singsong :: Singsong (v. i.) To write poor poetry.
Oblation :: Oblation (n.) A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor..
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