Saturday, July 25, 2015

POOR

WORD: POOR

MEANING:
1.
a. Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
b. Relating to or characterized by poverty: the poor side of town.
2. Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality: an area poor in timber and coal; a diet poor in calcium.
3. Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior: a poor performance; poor wages.
4. Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving: has a poor opinion of the mayor.
5. Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.
6. Humble; meek: "Let the humble ones arise, the poor in heart be glad" (John Greenleaf Whittier).
7. Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable: couldn't rescue the poor fellow.
8. weak, feeble, mediocre

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The poor girl has nothing to eat.
2. According to me, being poor is a curse for a human being.

PRONOUNCE:
poor - पुर

LINK: POOR

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