Poor Synonyms

121 poor synonyms include poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, and needful. Poor is an adjective, and its antonyms are rich and wealthy. Here are some additional synonyms for "poor" with example sentences.

Another word for Poor

121 other ways to say poor.

1. poverty-stricken

  • without a sou  
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  • underprivileged  
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  • unable to make ends meet  
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  • strapped for cash  
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  • strapped  
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  • stony broke  
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  • stone broke  
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  • skint  
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  • short of money  
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  • poverty-stricken  
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  • penurious  
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  • penniless  
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  • pauperized  
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  • on the breadline  
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  • on one's uppers  
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  • on one's beam-ends  
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  • needy  
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  • needful  
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  • necessitous  
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  • moneyless  
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  • low-paid  
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  • in the red  
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  • in straitened circumstances  
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  • insolvent  
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  • in reduced circumstances  
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  • in Queer Street  
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  • in penury  
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  • in need/want  
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  • indigent  
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  • in debt  
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  • impoverished  
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  • impecunious  
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  • hard up  
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  • flat broke  
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  • destitute  
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  • deprived
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  • craptastic  
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  • cleaned out  
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  • bust  
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  • broke  
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  • beggarly  
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  • beggared  
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  • bankrupt  
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  • badly off  
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  • as poor as a church mouse  
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2. substandard

  • wretched  
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  • weak sauce  
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  • unsatisfactory  
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  • unacceptable
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  • trashy  
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  • tinny  
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  • third-rate  
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  • terrible
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  • tenth-rate  
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  • tatty  
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  • substandard  
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  • shoddy  
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  • second-rate  
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  • sad
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  • rubbishy  
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  • rubbish  
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  • rotten  
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  • ropy  
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  • pitiful  
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  • pants  
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  • miserable
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  • mediocre
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  • low-grade  
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  • lamentable  
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  • jerry-built  
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  • insufficient
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  • inferior
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  • inadequate
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  • imperfect  
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  • grotty  
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  • frightful  
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  • faulty  
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  • farkakte  
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  • execrable  
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  • egregious  
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  • duff  
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  • dreadful  
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  • dismal  
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  • disappointing  
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  • direful  
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  • dire
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  • diabolical  
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  • deplorable  
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  • deficient  
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  • defective  
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  • crummy  
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  • crude  
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  • craptacular  
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  • bum  
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  • below standard  
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  • below par  
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  • bad
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  • awful
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  • atrocious  
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  • appalling  
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  • a load of pants  
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  • abysmal
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  • abject
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3. missing

  • with too few/little  
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  • with an insufficiency of  
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  • wanting (in)  
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  • short of/on  
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  • missing
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  • low on  
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  • lacking (in)  
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  • deficient in  
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4. unfortunate

  • wretched  
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  • unlucky  
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  • unhappy
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  • unfortunate
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  • pitiful  
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  • pitiable  
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  • luckless  
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  • ill-starred  
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  • ill-fated  
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  • hapless  
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Use poor in a Sentence

Absenteeism can result from poor health.

Despite their poor financial situation, they always managed to stay positive.

Exploitation of workers leads to poor working conditions.

Fat accumulation is common with poor diet.

Growing up in a poor neighborhood shaped his perspective on life.

He failed to qualify due to poor grades.

I felt abashed by my poor performance.

poor diets can deprive the body of essential vitamins.

She came from a poor family but worked hard to achieve success.

The customer was irritated by the poor service.