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Definition & Synonyms
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• Poorly
- (adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.
- (adv.) Meanly; without spirit.
- (adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.
- (a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.
- (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.
Synonyms:
Ailing, Badly, Ill, Indisposed, Peaked, Sickly, Unwell,
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• Pooled
- (imp. & p. p.) of Pool
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• Pooh
- (interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
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• Poop
- (n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessels hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.
- (v. t.) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
- (v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
- (v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
- (n.) See 2d Poppy.
Synonyms:
Crap, Dirt, Dope, Nincompoop, Ninny, Quarter, Stern, Tail,
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• Poor-john
- (n.) A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.
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• Pooh-pooh
- (v. t.) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!
Synonyms:
Disdain, Reject, Scorn, Spurn,
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• Pookoo
- (n.) A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.
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• Poorbox
- (n.) A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.
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• Poorness
- (n.) The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Synonyms:
Exiguity, Impoverishment, Meagerness, Meagreness, Poverty, Scantiness, Scantness,
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• Poor
- (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
- (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
- (superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
- (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
- (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
- (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
- (superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
- (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
- (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
- (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
- (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
- (superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
Synonyms:
Hapless, Inadequate, Mediocre, Miserable, Misfortunate, Pathetic, Piteous, Pitiable, Pitiful, Second-rate, Short, Wretched,
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