Poor synonyms | Another word for poor

Ill-starred, as poor as a church mouse, a load of pants, deficient in, hapless, and ill-fated are all synonyms for poor. Rich and wealthy are these antonyms of poor. And here are another 122 synonyms for poor.

Poor Synonyms

1. poverty-stricken

  • As poor as a church mouse
  • Badly off
  • Bankrupt
  • Beggarly
  • Broke
  • Bust
  • Cleaned out
  • Craptastic
  • Deprived
  • Destitute
  • Flat broke
  • Hard up
  • Impecunious
  • Impoverished
  • In Queer Street
  • In debt
  • In need/want
  • In penury
  • In reduced circumstances
  • In straitened circumstances
  • In the red
  • Indigent
  • Insolvent
  • Low-paid
  • Moneyless
  • Necessitous
  • Needful
  • Needy
  • On one's beam-ends
  • On one's uppers
  • On the breadline
  • Pauperized
  • Penniless
  • Penurious
  • Poverty-stricken
  • Short of money
  • Skint
  • Stone broke
  • Stony broke
  • Strapped for cash
  • Strapped
  • Unable to make ends meet
  • Underprivileged
  • Without a sou
  • Beggared

2. substandard

  • A load of pants
  • Abject
  • Abysmal
  • Appalling
  • Atrocious
  • Awful
  • Bad
  • Below par
  • Below standard
  • Bum
  • Craptacular
  • Crude
  • Crummy
  • Defective
  • Deficient
  • Deplorable
  • Diabolical
  • Dire
  • Direful
  • Disappointing
  • Dismal
  • Dreadful
  • Duff
  • Execrable
  • Farkakte
  • Faulty
  • Frightful
  • Grotty
  • Imperfect
  • Inadequate
  • Inferior
  • Insufficient
  • Jerry-built
  • Lamentable
  • Low-grade
  • Mediocre
  • Miserable
  • Pants
  • Pitiful
  • Ropy
  • Rotten
  • Rubbish
  • Rubbishy
  • Sad
  • Second-rate
  • Shoddy
  • Substandard
  • Tatty
  • Tenth-rate
  • Terrible
  • Third-rate
  • Tinny
  • Trashy
  • Unacceptable
  • Unsatisfactory
  • Weak sauce
  • Wretched
  • Egregious

3. missing

  • Deficient in
  • Lacking (in)
  • Low on
  • Missing
  • Short of/on
  • Wanting (in)
  • With an insufficiency of
  • With too few/little

4. unfortunate

  • Hapless
  • Ill-fated
  • Ill-starred
  • Luckless
  • Pitiable
  • Pitiful
  • Unfortunate
  • Unhappy
  • Unlucky
  • Wretched