| poor | (adjective) having little money or few possessions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in quality or substances | - |
| (adjective) characterized by or indicating poverty | - |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, short |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
| (noun) people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group) | Synonyms: poor people |
| poorhouse | (noun) an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless | - |
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| poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adverb) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well | Synonyms: badly, ill |
| poorness | (noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained | - |
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| (noun) less than adequate | - |
| (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty |
| poorwill | (noun) goatsucker of western North America | Synonyms: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
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