Words and phrases that have a meaning related to poor: (311 results)
Antonyms:
rich
Often used in the same context:
abysmal, lousy, woeful, pitiful, dismal, shoddy, bad, wretched, atrocious, mediocre, substandard, miserable, subpar, dreadful, destitute, inadequate, patchy, impoverished, appalling, deficient, weak, spotty, horrid, decent, inept, disadvantaged, pathetic, good, meager, crummy, lackluster, slipshod, terrible, indifferent, lamentable, sloppy, horrendous, inferior, unimpressive, uneven, needy, uneducated, underprivileged, deplorable, shabby, horrible, feeble, downtrodden, resourceless, awful, unsatisfactory, improved, underdeveloped, low, miserly, inequitable, pitiable, erratic, unhappy, unequal, lazy, shambolic, illiterate, uninspiring, shaky, ineffective, hopeless, crappy, careless, inconsistent, lax, irresponsive, disastrous, rotten, slovenly, uninspired, inefficient, meagre, paltry, dire, filthy, undernourished, abject, disappointing, harsh, misfortunate, dissatisfactory, rich, insufficient, abominable, unpunctual, semiliterate, benighted, excellent, anemic, wealthier, niggardly, spoiled, ragged, unkind, sickly, paupers, freedmen, labourer, cottagers, labourers, laborer, widows, householders, homeless, laborers, squatters, artisans, domestics, peasants, slaves, parishioners, people, farmers, orphans, poorer, poorest, stricken, afflicted, lovable, witted, dear, hearted, fearing, plucky, poore, unfortunate, distressed, outcast, brainy, defenseless
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acold, ad-lib, agnes gonxha bojaxhiu, ailing, alms, alms-giving, almsgiving, apology, badly, bad condition, befuddled, beneficent, benevolent, bid, bum, burkina faso, cacography, chagrined, charitable, charitableness, cheap, cheesy, chilblained, chintzy, clip joint, clumsy person, cracker, crummy, damned, deaf-aid, deplorable, destitute, dickensian, distorted, distributive shock, dog's breakfast, dog's dinner, drowned, eleemosynary, excuse, execrable, fence mending, finger grass, ghetto, hamming, handless, hearing aid, hypoglycaemia, hypoglycemia, hypothrombinemia, ignite, ill, impoverish, impoverished, impoverishment, indifferent, indigent, inequality, jejune, jerry-builder, laurentius, lawrence, lespedeza cuneata, lespedeza sericea, lowborn, malnutrition, marginalize, maundy, mediocre, miserable, mother teresa, mother theresa, necessitous, needy, not only, oblation, out, overacting, patzer, pauper, pauperisation, pauperization, pestered, philanthropic, plump, plump out, poetiser, poetizer, poorhouse, poorly, poor law, poor man, poor rates, poor shape, potboiler, poverty-stricken, professedly, prongy, pulp, pulp magazine, punk, real, redneck, retrieval, rhymer, rhymester, robin hood, ropey, ropy, saint lawrence, salvation army, sclaff, scratch, scrawl, scribble, sericea lespedeza, shadow, shank, shooter, sleazy, social work, sod, st. lawrence, stunning, stupidity, sweatshop, tastelessly, teresa, theresa, thickly, tinny, trance, trichuriasis, tushery, unbind, underemployed, undeserving, unfitness, unhealthfulness, upper volta, urchin, venous blood, versifier, waxen, wayfaring, wiesenboden, woeful, workhouse, wretched, wrong, zakat
Synonyms:
Also try:beggarly, broke, bust, hapless, hard up, hardscrabble, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, mean, moneyless, penniless, penurious, pinched, piteous, second-rate, short, skint, slum, slummy, stone-broke, stony-broke, unfruitful, unprovided for
— Nouns for poor: man, people, fellow, woman, girl, thing, quality, performance, child, health, boy, more...
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