Science Fair Project Dictionary
Poor
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English
Adjective
poor (poorer , poorest )
- with no possessions or money
- to be pitied
- Oh you poor little thing.
- of low quality
- That was a poor performance.
Pronunciation
- GenAm : /pʊr/
- RP : /pɔː/ or /pʊə/
- Rhymes:-ʊə(r)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
Homophones
- pour (some accents only)
- pore (some accents only)
Synonyms
- pitiable (2)
- inferior (3)
Antonyms
Related terms
- a poor man's ...
- dirt poor
- piss-poor
- poor box
- poor relation
Translations
- Catalan: pobre (ca)
- Chinese: 穷 (1), 可怜 (2), 贫乏 (3)
- Czech: chudý
- Dutch: arm (1,2), arme (1,2), berooid (1), beklagenswaardig (2)
- French: pauvre (1), pitoyable (2)
- German: arm (de)
- Frisian: earm (1,2)
- Indonesian: miskin , papa, tak berada , kekurangan
- Irish: bocht
- Italian: povero m, povera f
- Japanese: 貧乏 (びんぼう , binbō), 貧しい (まずしい , mazushii)
- бедный (1,2)
- Slovak: chudobný
- Spanish: pobre (es)
Nominal adjective
the poor
- those people as a group who have no possessions or money
Translations
- French: les pauvres m pl
- Spanish: lo pobre n
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