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Antonyms for poorer

Grammar : Adj
Spell : poor
Phonetic Transcription : pʊər

Definition of poorer

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
Example sentences :
  • He supposed he must think up something to daub on there—the poorer the better.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • Reading that phrase, you feel the earth is poorer for her loss.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • We can just hold on, and I would not have him a pound the poorer for me.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • The Schlegels were certainly the poorer for the loss of Wickham Place.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • He's poorer'n poverty and it's cheap livin' down at Martha Phipps's.
  • Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The farmers were impoverished, and the poorer people made beggars.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • But the woman's dress was poorer, and she was carrying a bundle in her arms.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • My new quarters were in the poorer district which stands at the back of Bayswater.
  • Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
  • The answer is, because the people concerned with the mines are poorer nowadays.
  • Extract from : « On Revenues » by Xenophon
  • The poorer classes do not know in the least what it means, nor what all the bother is about.
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Synonyms for poorer

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