poorer

noun

(with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

(countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.

(card games) the second-to-last placer in Tycoon

A surname

(obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.

verb

(transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.

(intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.

(obsolete) To call poor.

adjective

With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

Of low quality.

(attributive only) Worthy of pity.

Inadequate, insufficient.

Deficient in a specified way.

Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Roots

paucuspauper- · Latin · few, little

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