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Synonyms for poorest
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : poor |
| Phonetic Transcription : pʊər |
Top 10 synonyms for poorest Other synonyms for the word poorest
- bad off
- bankrupt
- bare
- barren
- base
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- below par
- broke
- commiserable
- common
- contemptible
- crude
- depleted
- diminutive
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- dwarfed
- empty-handed
- exhausted
- exiguous
- faulty
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- fruitless
- hapless
- hard up
- humble
- ill-fated
- impecunious
- imperfect
- in need
- in want
- incomplete
- indisposed
- infertile
- infirm
- insignificant
- insolvent
- lacking
- low-grade
- lowly
- luckless
- mean
- miserable
- modest
- moneyless
- necessitous
- needy
- niggardly
- ordinary
- paltry
- pathetic
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- plain
- poverty-stricken
- puny
- reduced
- rotten
- rueful
- scanty
- second-rate
- shabby
- shoddy
- sick
- skimpy
- slight
- sorry
- sparse
- sterile
- stone broke
- strapped
- subnormal
- subpar
- substandard
- suffering
- trifling
- trivial
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unfruitful
- unlucky
- unproductive
- unprosperous
- unsatisfactory
- valueless
- weak
- worthless
- wretched
Définition of poorest
Origin :- c.1200, "lacking money or resources, destitute; needy, indigent; small, scanty," from Old French povre "poor, wretched, dispossessed; inadequate; weak, thin" (Modern French pauvre), from Latin pauper "poor, not wealthy," from pre-Latin *pau-paros "producing little; getting little," a compound from the roots of paucus "little" (see paucity) and parare "to produce, bring forth" (see pare).
- Replaced Old English earm. Figuratively from early 14c. Meaning "of inferior quality" is from c.1300. Of inhabited places from c.1300; of soil, etc., from late 14c. The poor boy sandwich, made of simple but filling ingredients, was invented and named in New Orleans in 1921. To poor mouth "deny one's advantages" is from 1965 (to make a poor mouth "whine" is Scottish dialect from 1822). Slang poor man's ________ "the cheaper alternative to _______," is from 1854.
- adj lacking sufficient money
- adj deficient, inadequate
- adj weak, unfertile
- adj unfortunate, unhappy
- After that, Midas lived in the country and dressed as plainly as the poorest peasant.
- Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd
- But even in that little hole his family was the poorest there.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- The people were the poorest and most barbarous which he had met.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- She was in rags, barefoot, like the poorest nomad of them all.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- Their doors were constantly open to the poorest and the most ignorant.
- Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous
- But he could not have been the one to pay as he is the poorest of us all.
- Extract from : « The Lightning Conductor Discovers America » by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
- Why seat him in the poorest pew because his clothes are old?
- Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
- Regrets, unavailing regrets, are the poorest companions possible.
- Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- I may be the poorest M.D. that ever put up a sign, but I'm going to put that sign up just the same.
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- If they could have spoken the poorest commonplaces, the spell might have dissolved.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
Antonyms for poorest
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