adjective
1.
lacking money or material possessions
they were so poor that the children had no winter coats
Synonyms: beggared, broke, destitute, dirt poor, flat, fortuneless, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, low, necessitous, needy, penurious, poverty-stricken, stone-broke, stony, strapped, unprosperous
Related Word: distressed, embarrassed, pinched, reduced, straitened; bankrupt, bankrupted, insolvent; hardscrabble; moneyless, penceless, penniless, unmoneyed; beggarly, down-and-out, pauperized; underprivileged
Idioms: down to one's bottom dollar, flat broke, hard up, in need, in penury, in rags, in want, on one's beam-ends, on one's uppers, out at elbows, out of pocket, poor as a church mouse, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make ends meet
Contrasted words: affluent, comfortable, moneyed, ||oofy, opulent, pecunious, prosperous, wealthy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Antonyms: rich
2.
Synonyms: meager 2, exiguous, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, skimp, skimpy, spare, sparse
3.
Synonyms: pitiful 1, commiserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, rueful
4.
Synonyms: cheap 2, base, common, mean, paltry, rubbishy, shoddy, sleazy, tatty, trashy
5.
Synonyms: inferior 2, common, déclassé, hack, low-grade, mean, second-class, second-drawer, second-rate
6.
Synonyms: bad 1, amiss, ||bum, ||crappy, dissatisfactory, ||punk, rotten, unsatisfactory, up, wrong