Synonyms and Antonyms of poor
1
lacking money or material possessions
- every year, we make up a basket of food at Thanksgiving for a poor family in the neighborhood
beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British], threadbare
deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivileged
bankrupt, bankrupted, bust (or busted), insolvent
possessionless, ruined
depressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitened
cash-strapped, low, short, tapped out
affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
2
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
- land that is too poor for farming
barren, bony (also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, impoverished, infertile, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste
bleak, inhospitable, lifeless
uncultivable, untillable
bankrupted, consumed, debilitated, depleted, diminished, drained, dried-up, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, lessened, reduced, spent, used up
arid, desert, droughty, dry, rainless, sere (also sear), thirsty, waterless
baked, dehydrated, parched, sunbaked
3
less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable
- a poor crop because of the drought this year
exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, meager (or meagre), niggardly, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy
deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, short, wanting
bare, bare-bones
least, littlest, lowest, mere, minimal, slightest
slight, small, thin
barren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive
