Poor synonyms such as ill-starred, as poor as a church mouse, a load of pants, deficient in, hapless, and ill-fated. Poor is an adjective, and its antonyms are rich and wealthy. Additionally, here are 122 synonyms and nearby words for poor as well as words beginning with P, Po, Poo, and Poor.
122 synonyms for poor
1. poverty-stricken
as poor as a church mouse
badly off
bankrupt
beggared
beggarly
broke
bust
cleaned out
craptastic
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
strapped for cash
unable to make ends meet
underprivileged
without a sou
2. substandard
a load of pants
abysmal
appalling
atrocious
below par
below standard
bum
craptacular
crude
crummy
defective
deficient
deplorable
diabolical
direful
disappointing
dismal
dreadful
duff
egregious
execrable
farkakte
faulty
frightful
grotty
imperfect
jerry-built
lamentable
low-grade
pants
pitiful
ropy
rotten
rubbish
rubbishy
second-rate
shoddy
substandard
tatty
tenth-rate
third-rate
tinny
trashy
unsatisfactory
weak sauce
wretched
3. missing
deficient in
lacking (in)
low on
short of/on
wanting (in)
with an insufficiency of
with too few/little
4. unfortunate
hapless
ill-fated
ill-starred
luckless
pitiable
pitiful
unlucky
wretched