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单词 poor
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poorpoor /pʊr/ adjective poor
not having enough money:
  • Her family was very poor, and it didn't have enough money to buy her new clothes.
  • People in poor countries often cannot get safe drinking water.
  • needy
    needy people are very poor and need help:
  • They provide free medical care for needy children.
  • disadvantaged (formal)
    disadvantaged people have a smaller chance of being successful than richer people, because they are poor:
  • The school wants to give disadvantaged children a good education that will help them go to college or get jobs.
  • underprivileged (formal)
    underprivileged people are very poor and do not have the same education, health care, and other things that most other people in society have:
  • The program changed the lives of thousands of underprivileged people in Pittsburgh, by helping them get jobs and a better education.
  • poverty-stricken (formal)
    very poor, especially because something very bad has happened:
  • After their father died, the family was left poverty-stricken.
  • developing
    a developing country is poor and does not have many businesses or factories:
  • The disease is found mainly in developing countries.
  • penniless
    having no money. Penniless is old-fashioned and is used especially in written descriptions of people's lives:
  • He lost all his money by gambling and he died penniless.
  • ANTONYMS ➔ see rich (1) ➔ see bad for poor meaning "not good quality," poverty for words meaning "a situation in which people are poor"
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