Usually means: Having less financial or material wealth.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. poorer: Merriam-Webster
  2. poorer: Collins English Dictionary
  3. poorer: Vocabulary.com
  4. Poorer, poorer: Wordnik
  5. poorer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. poorer: Wiktionary
  7. Poorer, poorer: Dictionary.com
  8. poorer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. poorer: FreeDictionary.org
  10. poorer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poorer: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poorer: Idioms

(Note: See poor as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Poor)

adjective:  With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
adjective:  Of low quality.
adjective:  (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
adjective:  Deficient in a specified way.
adjective:  Inadequate, insufficient.
adjective:  Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
noun:  (plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
noun:  (countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.
verb:  (transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.
verb:  (obsolete) To call poor.
noun:  A surname
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