poorness

poor

P0443000 (po͝or)adj. poor·er, poor·est 1. a. Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.b. Relating to or characterized by poverty: the poor side of town.2. Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality: an area poor in timber and coal; a diet poor in calcium.3. Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior: a poor performance; poor wages.4. Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving: has a poor opinion of the mayor.5. Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.6. Humble; meek: "Let the humble ones arise, the poor in heart be glad" (John Greenleaf Whittier).7. Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable: couldn't rescue the poor fellow.n. (used with a pl. verb) Poor people considered as a group: The urban poor are in need of homes.

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[Middle English poure, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper; see pau- in Indo-European roots.]

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poor′ness n.Usage Note: In informal speech poor is sometimes used as an adverb, as in They never played poorer. In formal usage more poorly would be required in this example.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	poorness - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessionsimpoverishment, povertyfinancial condition - the condition of (corporate or personal) financesdeprivation, neediness, privation, want - a state of extreme povertydestitution - a state without friends or money or prospectsindigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury, need - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness - a state of lacking money
	2.	poorness - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness - the quality of yielding nothing of value
	3.	poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliotexiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantnessinadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessitiesspareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
	4.	poorness - the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"low quality, inferiority - an inferior quality

Translations

贫穷

poor

(puə) adjective1. having little money or property. She is too poor to buy clothes for the children; the poor nations of the world. 窮的 穷的2. not good; of bad quality. His work is very poor; a poor effort. 不好的，不佳的，劣質的 不好的，劣质的 3. deserving pity. Poor fellow! 可憐的 可怜的ˈpoorness noun 貧窮 贫穷ˈpoorly adverb not well; badly. a poorly written essay. 貧窮地，拙劣地 贫穷地，拙劣地 adjective ill. He is very poorly. 健康不佳的 健康不佳的