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  • poor :people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
    • the urban poor need assistance

  • poor :deserving or inciting pity
    • a hapless victim
    • miserable victims of war
    • the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic
    • piteous appeals for help
    • pitiable homeless children
    • a pitiful fate
    • Oh, you poor thing
    • his poor distorted limbs
    • a wretched life

  • poor :having little money or few possessions
    • deplored the gap between rich and poor countries
    • the proverbial poor artist living in a garret

  • poor :characterized by or indicating poverty
    • the country had a poor economy
    • they lived in the poor section of town

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