poor
noun · verb · adjective · adverbA1- Tiếng Việt:
- nghèo
nghèo. Họ từ POOR — danh từ: poverty; động từ: impoverish; tính từ: poor; trạng từ: poorly.
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: broke, impecunious, needy, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, depauperate, destitute, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, goodless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, indigent, insolvent, lower-class, necessitous, needy, oofless, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, poor as Job, possessionless, poverty-ridden, poverty-stricken, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless
- 2.
Of low quality.
That was a poor performance.
Đồng nghĩa: cheap, inferior, low, sorry, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched
- 3.
(attributive)(attributive only) Worthy of pity.
Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
Đồng nghĩa: pitiable, pitisome, rueful, compassionate, pathetic, pathetisad, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, poor, rueful, ruthful, snivelly, sorry-ass
- 4.
Deficient in a specified way.
Cow's milk is poor in iron.
Đồng nghĩa: absent, devoid of, void of, absent, awanting, bereft of, deficient of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, lacking, leer, poor in, robbed of, shorn of, stripped of, void of, wanting
- 5.
Inadequate, insufficient.
I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
Đồng nghĩa: dismal, meager, slender, awanting, deficient, dismal, exiguous, geason, inadequate, insufficient, lank, lean, lousy, meager, measly, paltry, poor, raunchy, scant, scantling, scanty, scarce, skimpy, sleazy, slender, spare, sparse, threadbare, unsatisfactory, unsufficient, wanting, wanty
- 6.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
Đồng nghĩa: demure, modest, self-effacing, abased, demure, diffident, humble, humble-hearted, low, lowly, meek, mild, modest, poor, resigned, self-effacing, unpretentious, verecund
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(plural, plural only)(with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
Then there have not always been proletarians? No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.
This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like Brooks for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting—this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire Atlas to Shrug his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically Brooks's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"—but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.
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.
- 2.
(plural, plural only)(card games) the second-to-last placer in Tycoon
- 3.
(countable)(countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.
The poors are at it again.
Đồng nghĩa: beggar, have not, penny-father, bankrupt, beggar, indigent, insolvent, have not, lack-all, Lazarus, pauper, penny-father, poor
- 4.
(obsolete)Synonym of poor cod.
Đồng nghĩa: poor cod
Động từ
verb- 1.
(rare, transitive)Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
Đồng nghĩa: beggar, pauperize, ruin, beggar, depauperate, depauperize, destitute, embeggar, empoverish, immiserate, impoor, impoverish, pauperize, poor, poverish, ruin, impoverish, to make poor
- 2.
(intransitive, obsolete)To become poor.
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- 3.
(obsolete)To call poor.
Cụm từ thường dùng
poor in
giới từ đi kèm
poor family
cụm thông dụng
perform poorly
cụm thông dụng
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Inherited from Middle English povre,povere, from fro,xno povre,poure, from Latin pauper, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (few, small). pauper.