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1. Oxford Dictionary

   poor

   • IPA[pɔː]

   英式

   • adj.
     lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society；(of a place) inhabited by people with little money
2. • 釋義
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   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society they 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 with little money the world's poorest countries
   • 2. 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) deserving of pity or sympathy they enquired 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

   poor mouth

   • n.
     a person who claims to be poor in order to benefit from others: I am not crying the poor mouth but only telling it as it is
   • v.
     talk disparagingly about: I used to poor-mouth corporate jets, but now that I've had the use of one I really appreciate it

   Oxford American Dictionary

   poor mouth

   • n.
     a person who claims to be poor in order to benefit from others: I am not crying the poor mouth but only telling it as it is
   • v.
     claim to be poor: the poor-mouthing museum is not exactly eager to publicize this good fortune

   Oxford Dictionary

   poor-spirited

   • adj.
     timid; cowardly.

   Oxford American Dictionary

   dirt poor

   • adj.
     extremely poor: dirt-poor villages

   Oxford American Dictionary

   piss-poor

   • adj.
     of a very low standard.

   Oxford American Dictionary

   poor-will

   • n.
     a small nightjar found mainly in central and western North America.

   Oxford American Dictionary

   poor box

   • n.
     a collection box, especially one in a church, for gifts of money or other articles toward the ...

   Oxford American Dictionary

   Poor Clare

   • n.
     a member of an order of Franciscan nuns founded by St. Clare of Assisi in c. 1212.

   Oxford American Dictionary

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   片語

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

   • IPA[po͝or]

   美式

   • adj.
     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

   Oxford American Dictionary