Synonyms for poor

Some common synonyms of poor are: poor [a.] 1. Indigent, needy, necessitous, pinched, straitened. 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, ~ly 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, ~, flimsy.