Money and banking / A2

POR/pɔː/

Poor means having little money: a poor family, too poor to buy, grow up poor. It also means low quality: poor English, a poor result, in poor condition. Rich is the money opposite; bad or weak often fit the quality meaning better in careful writing. The poor can mean poor people as a group. Do not say “poor of money” — say poor, or short of money.

Meaning

Having little money, or of low quality.

Examples

• “The family was too poor to buy new clothes.”
• “The village was too poor to build a new school.”
• “That was a poor excuse for being late.”

Good to know

a poor family / too poor to + verb. Quality: a poor result. Opposite (money): rich.

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