n. 25B6; adjective
a poor family : POVERTY-STRICKEN, penniless, moneyless, impoverished, necessitous, impecunious, indigent, needy, destitute, pauperized, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, without a sou; insolvent, in debt; Brit. on the breadline, without a penny (to one's name); informal (flat) broke, hard up, cleaned out, strapped, on one's uppers, without two pennies to rub together; Brit. informal skint, in Queer Street; formal penurious.
poor workmanship : SUBSTANDARD, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior; appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, unsatisfactory, second-rate, third-rate, shoddy, crude, lamentable, deplorable, inadequate, unacceptable; informal crummy, rubbishy, dire, dismal, bum, rotten, tenth-rate; Brit. informal ropy, duff, rubbish, dodgy.
a poor crop : MEAGRE, scanty, scant, paltry, disappointing, limited, reduced, modest, insufficient, inadequate, sparse, spare, deficient, insubstantial, skimpy, short, small, lean, slender; informal measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling; formal exiguous.
poor soil : UNPRODUCTIVE, barren, unyielding, unfruitful, uncultivatable; arid, sterile.
the waters are poor in nutrients : DEFICIENT, lacking, wanting; short of, low on.
you poor thing! : UNFORTUNATE, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched.
rich, superior, good, fertile, lucky.