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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   poor

   • IPA[po͝or]

   美式

   • adj.
     lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society；(of a place) inhabited by people without sufficient money
2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society people who were too poor to afford a telephone the gap between the rich and the poor has widened 同義詞 poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, ... 更多penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need/want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless, bankrupt, bust, insolvent, in debt, in the red, on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name), informalbroke, flat broke, cleaned out, strapped for cash, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies to rub together, without two (brass) farthings to rub together, stony broke, skint, in Queer Street, stone broke, craptastic, rarepauperized, beggared反義詞 rich, wealthy
   • ▪ (of a place) inhabited by people without sufficient money a poor area with run-down movie theaters and overcrowded schools
   • 2. worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality many people are eating a very poor diet her work was poor 同義詞 substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, ... 更多defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre, abject, appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dismal, dreadful, unsatisfactory, low-grade, second-rate, third-rate, jerry-built, shoddy, crude, tinny, trashy, miserable, wretched, disappointing, lamentable, deplorable, pitiful, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, execrable, frightful, informalcrummy, dire, bum, diabolical, rotten, sad, tatty, tenth-rate, ropy, duff, rubbish, rubbishy, pants, a load of pants, grotty, farkakte, weak sauce, craptacular, vulgar slangcrap, crappy, archaicdireful, rareegregious反義詞 superior
   • ▪ deficient or lacking in the water is poor in nutrients 同義詞 deficient in, lacking (in), wanting (in), short of/on, low on, ... 更多missing, with an insufficiency of, with too few/little …反義詞 rich in
   • ▪ dated used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man
   • 3. (of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy they inquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip 同義詞 unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ... 更多ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched反義詞 lucky

   片語

   • as poor as a church mouse
   • poor little rich girl
   • the poor man's —
   • poor relation
   • take a poor view of