Chapter Pointer to Porphyry of P by Soule's Synonymes

2. Penniless, moneyless, impecunious, destitute, distressed, poverty-stricken, seedy, reduced, short of money, out of money, without a penny, out of pocket, out of cash, out at the elbows, out at the heels, in need, in want, hard up, in distress, living from hand to mouth, not worth a farthing, not worth a sou, not rich, badly off, poorly off.

3. Emaciated, lean, thin, meagre, lank, gaunt, skinny, shrunk, fallen away.

4. Barren, sterile, unfruitful, unfertile, unproductive, fruitless, unprolific.

5. Trifling, trivial, slight, small, slender, flimsy, insufficient, inadequate, worthless, unimportant, of little use or worth, valueless, paltry.

6. Unsound, infirm, feeble, delicate, weak, frail.

7. Shabby, seedy, worthless, valueless, inferior, not good.

8. Contemptible, despicable, paltry, mean, sorry, beggarly, pitiful, shabby, bad, low, inferior.

9. Feeble, languid, weak, bald, tame, jejune, vapid, cold, frigid, dull, prosing, prosy, prosaic, spiritless, barren, mean, meagre, dry.

10. Miserable, wretched, unfortunate, luckless, ill-fated, ill-starred, unlucky, unhappy, pitiable.

11. Meagre, insufficient, inadequate, scant, small.

12. Faulty, unsatisfactory.

13. Thin, scanty.

14. Weak, feeble, poor, flimsy.

Poor, n. pl. [With The prefixed.]

1. The indigent, the needy.

2. Paupers.

Poor as a rat. Poor as a church mouse. Poor as Job. Very poor, extremely poor, destitute.

Poorhouse, n. Workhouse, almshouse.

Poor in spirit. Humble, contrite, meek, repentant.