Poor
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poor¹
- /pʊɚ/
- /pʊɹ/
- /pɔɹ/
- /pɔː/
- /pʊə/ archaic
- /pʉːɹ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /puːɐ/ Northumbria
- /puːɹ/ Ireland
- /poː/ Australia, New Zealand
- /poʊ/
Sounds like pour, pore (pour–poor merger), paw (paw–poor merger), Poe (show–sure merger) · Rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-
Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-?
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w(o)p(o)rh₃o-
Proto-Italic *paw(o)paro-?
Latin dīvesinflu.
Latin pauper
Old French povrebor.
Middle English povre
English poor
Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French and Anglo-Norman povre, poure, from Latin pauper, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displanced native wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”, from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”, from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”))
and almost fully arm.
adjective poorer · poorest
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
- Of low quality. That was a poor performance.
- Worthy of pity. Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
- Deficient in a specified way. Cow's milk is poor in iron.
- Inadequate, insufficient. I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. Blessed are the poor in spirit.
noun
- The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. ...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 a
- the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
noun poors
- A poor person. The poors are at it again.
- Synonym of poor cod.
verb poors · pooring · poored
- Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
- To become poor. The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.
- To call someone poor. Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.
Poor²
proper noun Poors
- A surname
