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poor

გამოთქმა: /pɔː, pʊə/

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  • 1lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society:they were too poor to afford a telephone (as plural noun the poor)the gap between the rich and the poor has widened
  • (of a place) inhabited by people with little money:the world’s poorest countries
  • 2of a low or inferior standard or quality:many people are eating a very poor diet her work was poor
  • (poor in) deficient or lacking in:the water is poor in nutrients
  • dated used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself:he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man
  • 3 [attributive] (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy:they enquired after poor Dorothy’s broken hip

(as) poor as a church mouse

extremely poor.

poor little rich boy (or girl)

a wealthy young person whose money brings them no contentment.

the poor man's ——

an inferior or cheaper substitute for the thing specified:corduroy has always been the poor man’s velvet

poor relation

a person or thing that is considered inferior or subordinate to others of the same type or group:for many years radio has been the poor relation of the media

take a poor view of

regard with disapproval: Heraclitus took a poor view of popular religion

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