Crossword-Solution: POOR 4 letters, 473 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Poor	superl.	Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
Poor	superl.	So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
Poor	superl.	Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
Poor	superl.	Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
Poor	superl.	Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
Poor	superl.	Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
Poor	superl.	Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
Poor	superl.	Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
Poor	superl.	Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
Poor	superl.	Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
Poor	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.
Poor	superl.	Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
Poor	n.	A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
POOR	anagram	PORO, ROPO

We have 473 clues for the answer “POOR”

Clue	Answers
"Alas ___ Yorick ..."	1 answer
"Aww, ___ baby!"	1 answer
"Aww, you ___ thing!"	1 answer
"Blessed are the ___ in spirit"	1 answer
"Give me your tired, your ___ . . ."	1 answer
"Give me your tired, your ___ ..." (Emma Lazarus)	1 answer
"How ___ are they that have not patience!": Iago	1 answer
"How ___ are they that have not patience!"—Othello.	1 answer
"Oh, you ___ thing!"	1 answer
"Rich Man, ___ Man"	1 answer
"Willie and the ___ boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet"	1 answer
"Willy and the ___ Boys" (CCR)	1 answer
"You ___ thing!"	1 answer
"__ Things": Oscar-winning Lanthimos film	1 answer
"___ Richard's Almanac"	1 answer
"___ Unfortunate Souls"	1 answer
"___ Unfortunate Souls" (Ursula's song)	1 answer
"___ Unfortunate Souls" (solo for Ursula)	1 answer
"___ splendid wings."	1 answer
1 on a scale of 1 to 5, maybe	1 answer
Adjective for Butterfly.	1 answer
Adjective for Richard	1 answer
Adjective for Richard's Almanac	1 answer
Adjective for Yorick	1 answer
Adjective for the little rich girl?	1 answer
Among the have-nots	1 answer
Aspiring rocker, perhaps	1 answer
Bad word on a report card	1 answer
Below C level, say	1 answer
Below C level?	1 answer
Beneficiaries of Robin Hood	1 answer
Box or boy preceder	1 answer
Church mouse descriptor	1 answer
Churchmouse status	1 answer
D, gradewise	1 answer
D-rated	1 answer
D-worthy	1 answer
Describing a "D" grade	1 answer
Inadequate in quality	1 answer
Deserving a "D" grade	1 answer
Deserving a D	1 answer
Deserving an F, perhaps	1 answer
Deserving of a D, say	1 answer
Deserving one star, perhaps	1 answer
Devoid of dinero	1 answer
EUROPEAN codfish	1 answer
Earning a D	1 answer
Earning a low grade	1 answer
Eligible for food stamps	1 answer
Extremely out of pocket	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with POOR (5)

What she said in her lovely tinkle Wendy could not of course understand, and I believe some of it was bad words, but it sounded kind, and she flew back and forward, plainly meaning “Follow me, and all will be well.” What else could poor Wendy do? She called to Peter and John and Michael, and got only mocking echoes in reply.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Through the roof looked Hiawatha, Cried aloud, “O Pau-Puk-Keewis Vain are all your craft and cunning, Vain your manifold disguises! Well I know you, Pau-Puk-Keewis!” With their clubs they beat and bruised him, Beat to death poor Pau-Puk-Keewis, Pounded him as maize is pounded, Till his skull was crushed to pieces.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

The Old Man hurriedly replied, “That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.” The Fir-Tree and the Bramble A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.” The Bramble answered: “You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree.” Better poverty without care, than riches with.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

After apologizing for his ignorance, and reminding the audience that slavery was a poor school for the human intellect and heart, he proceeded to narrate some of the facts in his own history as a slave, and in the course of his speech gave utterance to many noble thoughts and thrilling reflections.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

One only has to drive through this country to see that you’re all as rich as barons.” “We have a good deal more to say than we had when we were poor,” said Lou threateningly.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with POOR (3)

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman The Kindly Ones

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

Andrew Jackson

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 582 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).