Thesaurus
poor
Synonyms and Antonyms of poor
- Every year, we make up a basket of food at Thanksgiving for a poor family in the neighborhood.
down on one's luck, out at elbows (or out at the elbows), out of pocket
affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
- land that is too poor for farming
barren, bony (also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, impoverished, infertile, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste
- a poor crop because of the drought this year
thin on the ground
- a pretty poor musician, even for a garage band
bad, bush, bush-league, crummy (also crumby), deficient, dissatisfactory, ill, inferior, lame, lousy, off, paltry, punk, sour, subpar, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting, wretched, wrong
abysmal, atrocious, awful, brutal, damnable, deplorable, detestable, disastrous, dreadful, execrable, horrendous, horrible, pathetic, stinky, terrible, unspeakable
bum, cheesy, coarse, common, crappy [slang], cut-rate, junky, lesser, low-grade, low-rent, mediocre, miserable, reprehensible, rotten, rubbishy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, trashy
inadequate, insufficient, lacking, meager (or meagre), mean, miserly, niggardly, scanty, shabby, short, skimp, skimpy, spare, stingy
miscreant, scurrilous, villainous
counterfeit, fake, phony (also phoney), sham
below par (or under)
A1, bang-up, banner, capital, choice, crackerjack, dandy, divine, excellent, exceptional, fabulous, fine, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, heavenly, high-test, jim-dandy, keen, marvelous (or marvellous), mean, neat, nifty, noble, par excellence, perfect, premium, prime, sensational, slick, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notch, unsurpassed, wonderful
better, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, special, sufficient
average, borderline, fair, mediocre, middling, minimal, so-so, unexceptional
acceptable, adequate, all right, decent, fine, OK (or okay), passable, respectable, satisfactory, standard, tolerable
- the poor workmanship of the furniture
indifferent, lackluster, second-class
flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, kitsch, kitschy, meretricious, ostentatious, showy, splashy, swank (or swanky), tawdry
counterfeit, fake, phony (also phoney), sham
- Aw, the poor kitten hurt its paw.
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