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• “the urban poor need assistance“

Synonyms

• poor people people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

• “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“

Synonyms

• hapless deserving or inciting pity
• miserable very unhappy; deserving or inciting pity; of the most contemptible kind; of very poor quality or condition; characterized by physical misery; contemptibly small in amount
• misfortunate deserving or inciting pity
• pathetic deserving or inciting pity; inspiring mixed contempt and pity; inspiring scornful pity
• piteous deserving or inciting pity
• pitiable inspiring mixed contempt and pity; deserving or inciting pity
• pitiful inspiring mixed contempt and pity; bad; deserving or inciting pity
• wretched of very poor quality or condition; characterized by physical misery; very unhappy; morally reprehensible; deserving or inciting pity

• “deplored the gap between rich and poor countries“
• “the proverbial poor artist living in a garret“

• “the country had a poor economy“
• “they lived in the poor section of town“

• “a poor land“
• “the area was poor in timber and coal“
• “food poor in nutritive value“
• “the food in the cafeteria was of poor quality“

• “an inadequate income“
• “a poor salary“
• “money is short“
• “on short rations“
• “food is in short supply“
• “short on experience“
• “the jejune diets of the very poor“

Synonyms

• inadequate lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; of insufficient quantity to meet a need
• short cheat someone by not returning him enough money ; create a short circuit in ; the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed ; accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference ; the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base ; quickly and without warning; without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; clean across; at some point or distance before a goal is reached; so as to interrupt; at a disadvantage; in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; primarily temporal sense; (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; low in stature; of insufficient quantity to meet a need; (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; lacking foresight or scope; tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; marked by rude or peremptory shortness
• jejune of insufficient quantity to meet a need; displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; lacking interest or significance or impact