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Impoverished vs. Poor — What's the Difference?

Impoverished vs. Poor — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Impoverished and Poor

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Impoverished

Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken
Pledged aid to the impoverished, war-torn country.

Poor

Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.

Impoverished

Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted
An impoverished vocabulary.

Poor

Relating to or characterized by poverty
The poor side of town.

Impoverished

Reduced to poverty.
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Poor

Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality
An area poor in timber and coal.
A diet poor in calcium.

Impoverished

Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
English has an impoverished inflectional system.

Poor

Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior
A poor performance.
Poor wages.

Impoverished

Simple past tense and past participle of impoverish

Poor

Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving
Has a poor opinion of the mayor.

Impoverished

Poor enough to need help from others

Poor

Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.

Impoverished

Destroyed financially;
The broken fortunes of the family

Poor

Humble; meek
"Let the humble ones arise, the poor in heart be glad" (John Greenleaf Whittier).

Poor

Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable
Couldn't rescue the poor fellow.

Poor

Poor people considered as a group
The urban poor are in need of homes.

Poor

With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

Poor

Of low quality.
That was a poor performance.

Poor

Used to express pity.
Oh you poor little thing.

Poor

Deficient in a specified way.
Cow's milk is poor in iron.

Poor

Inadequate, insufficient.
I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

Poor

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

Poor

(plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.
The poor are always with us.
The rich are often so insulated from reality that they think the poor have extra money they could save for more than a short time.

Poor

A poor person.
The poors are at it again.

Poor

(obsolete) poor cod.

Poor

Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.

Poor

To become poor.

Poor

(obsolete) To call poor.

Poor

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

Poor

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

Poor

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.

Poor

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.

Poor

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

Poor

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

Poor

Moderate to inferior in quality;
They improved the quality from mediocre to above average
He would make a poor spy

Poor

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

Poor

Having little money or few possessions;
Deplored the gap between rich and poor countries
The proverbial poor artist living in a garret

Poor

Characterized by or indicating lack of money;
The country had a poor economy

Poor

Low in degree;
Expectations were poor

Poor

Badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances;
A poor land
The area was poor in timber and coal
Food poor in nutritive value

Poor

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

Poor

Unsatisfactory;
A poor light for reading
Poor morale

Poor

Yielding little by great labor;
A hardscrabble farm
Poor soil

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