Usually means: Lacking sufficient financial or material resources.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word poor:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. poor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poor, the poor: Merriam-Webster
  3. poor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Poor, Poor, poor, the poor: Wordnik
  8. poor, the poor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poor: Wiktionary
  10. poor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Poor, poor, the poor: Dictionary.com
  14. poor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. poor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Poor (disambiguation), Poor, The Poor (American band), The Poor (Australian band), The Poor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Poor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. poor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. poor: Rhymezone
  20. poor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. poor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Poor: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Poor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. poor, the poor: FreeDictionary.org
  25. poor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. The poor, poor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. poor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. poor: Glossary of research economics
  2. poor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. poor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. POOR: Acronym Finder
  3. poor: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Poor: Easton Bible
  2. Poor: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. poor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. po'or, poor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Poor: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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