Related Words for poor

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impoverished
x/x
Adjective
destitute
/xx
Adjective, Adjective, Noun
indigent
/xx
Noun, Adjective, Noun
needy
/x
Noun, Adjective
penniless
/xx
Adjective, Adjective
insufficient
xx/x
Adjective, Adjective
deficient
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
bad
/
Adjective, Adjective
hapless
/x
Adjective, Adjective
unfortunate
x/xx
Adjective, Adjective
miserable
/xxx
Adjective, Adjective
low
/
Adjective, Adjective
pitiful
/xx
Adjective, Adjective
pitiable
/xxx
Adjective, Adjective
pathetic
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
unfruitful
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
piteous
/xx
Adjective, Adjective
inadequate
x/xx
Adjective, Adjective
inferior
x/xx
Adjective, Adjective
wretched
/x
Adjective, Adjective
short
/
Adjective, Adjective
mean
/
Adjective, Adjective
pinched
/
Adjective, Adjective
slum
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
bust
/
Verb, Adjective
mediocre
xx/x
Adjective, Adjective
broke
/
Adjective, Adjective, Verb
hard up
//
Phrase, Verb, Adjective
rich
/
Adjective, Noun
lousy
/x
Adjective
weak
/
Adjective
abysmal
x/x
Adjective
shoddy
/x
Adjective
woeful
/x
Adjective
terrible
/xx
Adjective
awful
/x
Adjective
horrible
/xx
Adjective
underprivileged
/x/x
Noun
good
/
Adjective
dismal
/x
Adjective
feeble
/x
Adjective
uneducated
x/xxx
Adjective
disadvantaged
xx/x
Adjective
unsophisticated
xx/xxx
Adjective
atrocious
x/x
Adjective
crappy
/x
Adjective
downtrodden
x/x
Noun
lackluster
/xx
Adjective
crummy
/x
Noun
wealthy
/x
Adjective
decent
/x
Adjective
suboptimal
xxxx
Adjective
dreadful
/x
Adjective
appalling
x/x
Adjective
unhappy
x/x
Adjective
unsatisfactory
xxx/xx
Adjective
affluent
/xx
Adjective
sick
/
Adjective
horrid
/x
Adjective
dodgy
/x
Adjective
crippled
/x
Verb
unlucky
x/x
Adjective
excellent
/xx
Adjective
shaky
/x
Adjective
deprived
x/
Verb
deplorable
x/xx
Adjective
inefficient
xx/x
Adjective
sluggish
/x
Adjective
starving
/x
Verb
lazy
/x
Adjective
illiterate
x/xx
Adjective
horrendous
x/x
Adjective
poorly
/x
Adverb
oppressed
x/
Adjective, Verb
elderly
/xx
Adjective
troubled
/x
Adjective
inept
x/
Adjective
sloppy
/x
Adjective
undeserving
xx/x
Adjective
benighted
x/x
Adjective
helpless
/x
Adjective
thin
/
Adjective
bankrupt
/x
Adjective
shabby
/x
Adjective
dispossessed
xx/
Verb
hungry
/x
Adjective
naked
/x
Adjective
cramped
/
Adjective
meager
/x
Adjective
worthless
/x
Adjective
badly off
/x/
Phrase, Adjective
lacking
/x
Verb
undeveloped
xx/x
Adjective
bereft
x/
Noun
bad off
//
Phrase, Adjective
meagre
/x
Adjective
sorry
/x
Adjective
spare
/
Adjective
valueless
/xx
Adjective
powerless
/xx
Adjective
stingy
/x
Adjective
empty
/x
Adjective
tight
/
Adjective
spendthrift
/x
Noun
devoid
x/
Noun
scant
/
Adjective
scanty
/x
Adjective
underserved
xx/
Adjective
unorganised
x/xx
Adjective
lowly
/x
Adjective
unworthy
x/x
Adjective
unenviable
x/xxx
Adjective
uplift
/x
Verb
trickle
/x
Verb
dear
/
Noun
redistributing
xx/xx
Verb
empower
x/x
Verb
housing
/x
Verb
wretches
/x
Noun
subsidize
/xx
Verb
distributing
x/xx
Verb
aiding
/x
Verb
eyesight
/x
Noun
overrepresented
/xxx/x
Verb
prognosis
x/x
Noun
overseers
xx/x
Noun
relieving
x/x
Verb
devils
/x
Noun
deserving
x/x
Verb
preach
/
Verb
discriminates
x/xx
Verb
labouring
/xx
Verb
darling
/x
Noun
ministering
/xx
Verb
target
/x
Verb
orphan
/x
Noun
papa
/x
Noun
robbing
/x
Verb
donate
/x
Verb
sanitation
xx/x
Noun
assisting
x/x
Verb
laboring
/xx
Verb
liberate
/xx
Verb
exploiting
/xx
Verb
tom
/
Name
showing
/x
Noun
whites
/
Noun
reproducibility
xx/x/xx
Noun
harvests
/x
Noun
benefiting
/xxx
Verb
peasants
/x
Noun
helping
/x
Verb
abominable
x/xxx
Adjective
abusive
x/x
Adjective
accursed
x/
Adjective
adverse
x/
Adjective
afflicted
x/x
Adjective
alms
/
Noun
arm
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
artisans
/xx
Noun
backward
/x
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
badly
/x
Adverb, Adjective
bit
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bleak
/
Adjective, Noun
brainy
/x
Adjective
cheap
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
clumsy
/x
Adjective, Noun
defective
x/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
defenseless
x/x
Adjective
degraded
x/x
Adjective
depressed
x/
Adjective
deprivation
xx/x
Noun
destitution
/xxx
Noun
deteriorating
x/xxxx
Adjective
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
dilapidated
x/xxx
Adjective
dire
/
Adjective, Noun
dirty
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
disabled
x/x
Adjective, Noun
disappointing
xx/x
Adjective
distressed
x/
Adjective
domestics
x/x
Noun
double
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
dumb
/
Adjective, Verb, Adverb
erroneous
x/xx
Adjective
evil
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
faint
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
farmers
/x
Noun
faulty
/x
Adjective
fearing
/x
Adjective, Noun
few
/
Noun
firearm
/xx
Noun
flawed
/
Adjective
flimsy
/x
Adjective, Noun
fortunate
/xx
Adjective
foul
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
fragile
/x
Adjective, Noun
freedmen
/x
Noun
gaps
/
Noun
guilty
/x
Adjective, Noun
gun
/
Noun, Verb
half
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
handicapped
/xx
Adjective, Noun
hard
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
harmful
/x
Adjective
harsh
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
hearted
/x
Adjective
homeless
/x
Adjective, Noun
homely
/x
Adjective
householders
/xx
Noun
hurt
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
ill
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
imperfect
x/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
improper
x/x
Adjective, Verb
inadequacy
x/xxx
Noun
inappropriate
xx/xx
Adjective
inclement
x/x
Adjective
incomplete
xx/
Adjective, Noun
incorrect
xx/
Adjective, Noun
indifferent
x/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
ineffective
xx/x
Adjective
infertile
x/x
Adjective
insecure
/xx
Adjective
insubstantial
xx/x
Adjective
insufficiency
xx/xx
Noun
john
/
Name
laborer
/xx
Noun
lame
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
lamentable
x/xx
Adjective
lean
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
limited
/xx
Adjective, Noun
little
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
lonely
/x
Adjective
loose
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
lovable
/xx
Adjective
mal
/
Noun
mala
/x
Noun
malicious
x/x
Adjective
malo
/x
Name
marginal
/xx
Adjective, Noun
measly
/x
Adjective
meek
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
minimal
/xx
Adjective, Noun
minor
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
misery
/xx
Noun
misguided
x/x
Adjective
mistaken
x/x
Adjective
modest
/x
Adjective
money
/x
Noun, Adjective
morose
x/
Adjective
nasty
/x
Adjective, Noun
negative
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
nonperforming
xx/x
Adjective
nots
/
Adjective
objectionable
x/xxx
Adjective
old
/
Adjective, Noun
outcast
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
pale
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
paltry
/x
Adjective
parishioners
x/xx
Noun
patchy
/x
Adjective
paucity
/xx
Noun
pauper
/x
Noun, Verb
people
/x
Noun, Verb
pistol
/x
Noun, Verb
plain
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
plucky
/x
Adjective
poore
/
Noun, Adjective
poverty
/xx
Noun
precarious
x/xx
Adjective
problems
/x
Noun
puny
/x
Adjective, Noun
reduced
x/
Adjective
shirtless
/x
Adjective
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
xx/
Adverb
die
/
Verb, Noun
sorta
/x
Adverb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb