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

Of low quality. +

(only) Worthy of pity. +

Deficient in a specified way.

Inadequate, insufficient.

Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

(plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

(poor person) (Scottish) A poor person.

(obsolete) (poor cod).

(rare) (impoverish), to make poor.

(obsolete) To become poor.

(obsolete) To call poor.