Synonyms of the word

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

beggarly

• adj. In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
• adj. Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
• adj. (by extension) inadequate or meagre.
• adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

broke

• v. simple past tense of break.
• v. (archaic, nonstandard or poetic) past participle of break.
• adj. (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt.
• adj. (informal) Broken.
• adj. (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
• n. (papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
• v. To broker; to transact business for another.
• v. (obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

deficient

• adj. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
• adj. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper…

destitute

• adj. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.
• v. (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

hapless

• adj. Very unlucky; ill-fated.
• adj. Devoid of talent or skill.

hardscrabble

• adj. Of land: taking a lot of work to farm, and even then not very productive.

impecunious

• adj. Lacking money.

impoverished

• adj. Reduced to poverty.
• adj. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of impoverish.

inadequate

• adj. Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient.
• n. An individual who is inadequate.

indigent

• adj. Poor; destitute; in need.
• n. A person in need, or in poverty.

insufficient

• adj. Not sufficient.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

miserable

• adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
• adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
• adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
• adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
• n. A miserable person; a wretch.

misfortunate

• adj. Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.

moneyless

• adj. Having no (or very little) money; penniless.
• adj. That does not use money as a means of exchange.

necessitous

• adj. (archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.
• adj. (archaic) In need, lacking (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])}…

needy

• adj. In need, poor.
• adj. Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence.

pathetic

• adj. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
• adj. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
• adj. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

penniless

• adj. Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.

penurious

• adj. Miserly; excessively cheap.
• adj. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
• adj. Impoverished; wanting for money.

people

• n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
• n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
• n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
• n. One's colleagues or employees.
• n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
• n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
• n. plural of person.
• v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
• v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
• v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

pinched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of pinch.
• adj. Very thin.
• adj. (of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
• adj. Compressed.

piteous

• adj. pitiful; provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
• adj. (obsolete) pious; devout.
• adj. (obsolete) compassionate; tender.
• adj. (obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful.

pitiable

• adj. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.

pitiful

• adj. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
• adj. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
• adj. Very small (of an amount or number).

poverty-stricken

• adj. Very poor.

resourceless

• adj. Without resources.

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

skint

• adj. (slang, Britain, Australia) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.

slummy

• adj. Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.

stone-broke

• adj. Alternative form of stone broke.

stony-broke

• adj. Alternative form of stony broke.

underprivileged

• adj. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others.
• n. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.

wretched

• adj. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;…
• adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
• adj. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
• v. Misspelling of retched.