Impecunious vs. Poor

Impecuniousadjective

lacking money

Pooradjective

With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

‘We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.’;

Impecuniousadjective

Not having money; habitually without money; poor.

‘An impecunious creature.’;

Pooradjective

Of low quality.

‘That was a poor performance.’;

Impecuniousadjective

not having enough money to pay for necessities

Pooradjective

Used to express pity.

‘Oh you poor little thing.’;

Pooradjective

Deficient in a specified way.

‘Cow's milk is poor in iron.’;

Pooradjective

Inadequate, insufficient.

‘I received a poor reward for all my hard work.’;

Pooradjective

Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Poornoun

(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

‘The poor are always with us.’;

Pooradjective

Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

Pooradjective

So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.

Pooradjective

Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected

‘That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.’;

Pooradjective

Worthy of pity or sympathy; - used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.

‘And for mine own poor part,Look you, I'll go pray.’; ‘Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing.’;

Pooradjective

Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Poornoun

A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); - called also power cod.

Pooradjective

moderate to inferior in quality;

‘they improved the quality from mediocre to above average’; ‘he would make a poor spy’;

Pooradjective

deserving or inciting pity;

‘a hapless victim’; ‘miserable victims of war’; ‘the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic’; ‘piteous appeals for help’; ‘pitiable homeless children’; ‘a pitiful fate’; ‘Oh, you poor thing’; ‘his poor distorted limbs’; ‘a wretched life’;

Pooradjective

having little money or few possessions;

‘deplored the gap between rich and poor countries’; ‘the proverbial poor artist living in a garret’;

Pooradjective

characterized by or indicating lack of money;

‘the country had a poor economy’;

Pooradjective

low in degree;

‘expectations were poor’;

Pooradjective

badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances;

‘a poor land’; ‘the area was poor in timber and coal’; ‘food poor in nutritive value’;

Pooradjective

not sufficient to meet a need;

‘an inadequate income’; ‘a poor salary’; ‘money is short’; ‘on short rations’; ‘food is in short supply’; ‘short on experience’;

Pooradjective

unsatisfactory;

‘a poor light for reading’; ‘poor morale’;

Pooradjective

yielding little by great labor;

‘a hardscrabble farm’; ‘poor soil’;