poor

poor (http://definr.com/poor)

     adj 1: moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality
            from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor
            spy" [syn: mediocre, second-rate]
     2: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable
        victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as
        extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals
        for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate";
        "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted
        limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
         pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched]
     3: having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap
        between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor
        artist living in a garret" [ant: rich]
     4: characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country
        had a poor economy" [ant: rich]
     5: low in degree; "expectations were poor"
     6: badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a
        poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food
        poor in nutritive value" [ant: rich]
     7: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a
        poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food
        is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: inadequate,
         short]
     8: unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"
     9: yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor
        soil" [syn: hardscrabble]