Poor Definition
- have-nots
- second-class-citizen
- the impoverished masses
- beggars
- forgotten man
- the underprivileged
- underdogs
- the unemployed
- needy
- poor people
- mendicancy
- indigence
- poverty
- pauperization
- impoverishment
- rich people
- rich
- poor, or needy, people collectively
Other Word Forms of Poor
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Poor
- the poor
Origin of Poor
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From Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (Anglo-Norman) povre, poure (Modern French pauvre), from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (“getting little"), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“smallness"). Cognate with Old English fÄ“awa (“little, few"). Displaced native Middle English earm, arm (“poor") (from Old English earm; See arm), Middle English wantsum, wantsome (“poor, needy") (from Old Norse vant (“deficiency, lack, want"), Middle English unlede (“poor") (from Old English unlÇ£de, Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy") (from Old English un- + weliÄ¡ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English poure from Old French povre from Latin pauper pau-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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