poor
- adj. 贫穷的；可怜的；贫乏的；卑鄙的
- n. (Poor)人名；(英、伊朗)普尔
英英释意
- 1. moderate to inferior in quality;
- "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
- "he would make a poor spy"
- 2. deserving or inciting pity;
- "a hapless victim"
- "miserable victims of war"
- "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
- "piteous appeals for help"
- "pitiable homeless children"
- "a pitiful fate"
- "Oh, you poor thing"
- "his poor distorted limbs"
- "a wretched life"
- 3. having little money or few possessions;
- "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"
- "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
- 4. characterized by or indicating lack of money;
- "the country had a poor economy"
- 5. low in degree;
- "expectations were poor"
- 6. badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances;
- "a poor land"
- "the area was poor in timber and coal"
- "food poor in nutritive value"
- 7. not sufficient to meet a need;
- "an inadequate income"
- "a poor salary"
- "money is short"
- "on short rations"
- "food is in short supply"
- "short on experience"
- 8. unsatisfactory;
- "a poor light for reading"
- "poor morale"
- 9. yielding little by great labor;
- "a hardscrabble farm"
- "poor soil"