poor

1. poor (adj) — sense 1

Definition: With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

Example: We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

2. poor (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Of low quality.

Example: That was a poor performance.

3. poor (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Worthy of pity.

Example: Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!

4. poor (noun) — sense 4

Definition: The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

Example: The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.

5. poor (noun) — sense 5

Definition: the second-to-last placer in Tycoon

6. poor (noun) — sense 6

Definition: A poor person.

Example: The poors are at it again.

7. poor (verb) — sense 7

Definition: Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.

Example: It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.

8. poor (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To become poor.

Example: The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.

9. poor (verb) — sense 9

Definition: To call someone poor.

Example: Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.