poor
adjective
1 impoverished, poverty-stricken, badly off, in need, hard-up, bankrupt, penniless, as poor as a church mouse, without means, without the wherewithal, destitute, deprived, underprivileged, disadvantaged, reduced, humble, lowly, mean, miserable, wretched, distressed, straitened, beggared, needy
formal penurious, impecunious, exiguous, obolary, indigent
colloq. dirt-poor, broke, stony, stony-broke, flat broke, skint, strapped (for cash), cash-strapped, cleaned-out, on your uppers, on your beam ends, not having two pennies to rub together, not having a penny to your name, on the breadline, in Queer Street
2 bad, substandard, unsatisfactory, inferior, mediocre, below standard, below par, low, low-quality, low-grade, low-rent, second-rate, third-rate, shoddy, imperfect, defective, faulty, jerry, weak, feeble, sorry, worthless, fruitless, unproductive, barren
colloq. pathetic, rubbish, rop(e)y, rotten, duff, measly, crumm; Aust cronk; Aust & NZ crook
slang cruddy, naff, pants
3 lacking, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, scanty, skimpy, meagre, sparse, paltry, depleted, exhausted
4 unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, ill-fated, ill-starred, unhappy, miserable, wretched, sorry, sad, spiritless, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
formal hapless