poor

I (inferior in quality) adjective bad, badly made, barely passable, base, beggarly, below par, below standard, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, defective, deficient, dubious, faulty, flimsy, gimcrack, imperfect, inadequate, inartistic, indifferent, inferior, lacking in quality, low, low-grade, marred, meager, mean, mediocre, mediocris, miserable, ordinary, paltry, pitiful, rejected, scant, scrub, scrubby, scurvy, second best, second-rate, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, sordid, sorry, subgrade, substandard, tawdry, tenuis, trashy, under average, undergrade, unimpressive, unsatisfactory, unsightly, unworthy, valueless, vulgar, wanting, weak, worthless, wretched associated concepts: poor condition II (underprivileged) adjective bankrupt, beggared, bereft of funds, depleted, deprived, destitute, dispossessed, distressed, drained, egens, embarrassed, empty-handed, fortuneless, hard up, ill-provided for, impecunious, impoverished, in distress, in embarrassed circumstances, in narrow circumstances, in need, in penury, in pinched circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want, indigent, inops, insolvent, mendicus, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, out of cash, out of money, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, reduced, reduced to beggary, ruined, short, short of money, starved, straitened, strapped, suffering privation, unable to make ends meet, unmoneyed, unprosperous, unprovided for, with meager funds, with scanty funds, without a penny associated concepts: petition to proceed as a poor person III index base (inferior), deficient, deplorable, destitute, devoid, impecunious, imperfect, inadept, inadequate, inferior (lower in quality), insubstantial, insufficient, lamentable, marginal, mediocre, negligible, paltry, perfunctory, slipshod, unfavorable, unsatisfactory