poor
I
(inferior in quality) adjective
bad, badly made, barely passable, base, beggarly, below par, below standard, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, defective, deficient, dubious, faulty, flimsy, gimcrack, imperfect, inadequate, inartistic, indifferent, inferior, lacking in quality, low, low-grade, marred, meager, mean, mediocre, mediocris, miserable, ordinary, paltry, pitiful, rejected, scant, scrub, scrubby, scurvy, second best, second-rate, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, sordid, sorry, subgrade, substandard, tawdry, tenuis, trashy, under average, undergrade, unimpressive, unsatisfactory, unsightly, unworthy, valueless, vulgar, wanting, weak, worthless, wretched
associated concepts: poor condition
II
(underprivileged) adjective
bankrupt, beggared, bereft of funds, depleted, deprived, destitute, dispossessed, distressed, drained, egens, embarrassed, empty-handed, fortuneless, hard up, ill-provided for, impecunious, impoverished, in distress, in embarrassed circumstances, in narrow circumstances, in need, in penury, in pinched circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want, indigent, inops, insolvent, mendicus, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, out of cash, out of money, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, reduced, reduced to beggary, ruined, short, short of money, starved, straitened, strapped, suffering privation, unable to make ends meet, unmoneyed, unprosperous, unprovided for, with meager funds, with scanty funds, without a penny
associated concepts: petition to proceed as a poor person
III
index
base (inferior), deficient, deplorable, destitute, devoid, impecunious, imperfect, inadept, inadequate, inferior (lower in quality), insubstantial, insufficient, lamentable, marginal, mediocre, negligible, paltry, perfunctory, slipshod, unfavorable, unsatisfactory
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006