Another word for poor

As poor as a church mouse, a load of pants, deficient in, hapless, pitiable, and ill-starred are another word for poor. Rich and wealthy are the opposites of poor. On this page, find 122 synonyms for poor, parts of speech, and examples of poor sentences.

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. deficient in

  • 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

Poor sentences

The area has poor internet connectivity.

She made a poor financial decision.

The report was poor in detail.

He received poor customer service today.

Poor parts of speech

Adjective