poor
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Is poor a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (attributive only) Worthy of pity.Examples: "Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!"; "This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite."; "Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen."Synonyms: pitiableattributive
noun (English)
1. (with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.Examples: "...when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might haue bin sold for much, and giuen to the poore. When Iesus vnderstood it, he said vnto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good worke vpon me. For ye haue the poore alwayes with you, but me ye haue not alwayes."; "Harry Truman used to say that 13 or 14 million Americans had their interests represented in Washington, but that the rest of the people had to depend on the President of the United States. That is how I felt about the 35 million American poor. They had no voice and no champion. Whatever the cost, I was determined to represent them. Through me they would have an advocate and, I believed, new hope."; "Then there have not always been proletarians? No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free."pluralplural-only
noun (English)
1. (countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.Examples: "The poors are at it again."; "...me vint of ane king to huam a poure acsede ane peny..."; "He had given somewhat to every poore in the Parish."countable
2. (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.Synonyms: poor codobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.Examples: "It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations."Synonyms: impoverish, to make poorraretransitive
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.Examples: "The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn."intransitiveobsolete
3. (obsolete) To call poor.Examples: "Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary