BAD vs POOR: NOUN
- That which is bad. A bad condition: as, to go to the bad (see below). A bad thing: as, there are bads and goods among them.
- Preterit of bid.
- That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
- Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
- A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
- In England, a gadoid fish, Gadus minutus.
- Poor people considered as a group.
BAD vs POOR: ADJECTIVE
- Malodorous, foul.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Evil; wicked.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
- Not good; unfavorable; negative.
- This sense?) (slang) Fantastic.
- Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good.
- Very good; great.
- Sorry; regretful.
- Being in poor condition; diseased.
- Being in poor health or in pain.
- Severe; intense.
- Being so far behind in repayment as to be considered a loss.
- Having no validity; void.
- Full of or exhibiting faults or errors.
- Not working properly; defective.
- Injurious in effect; detrimental.
- Not fresh; rotten or spoiled.
- Unfavorable.
- Disagreeable, unpleasant, or disturbing.
- Disobedient or naughty.
- Vulgar or obscene.
- Immoral or evil.
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor.
- Physically unsound or diseased
- Capable of harming
- Keenly sorry or regretful
- Characterized by wickedness or immorality
- Having undesirable or negative qualities
- Reproduced fraudulently
- Not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- Not capable of being collected
- Below average in quality or performance
- Nonstandard
- Not financially safe or secure
- Very intense
- Inadequate, insufficient
- Deficient in a specified way.
- To be pitied.
- Of low quality.
- With little or no possessions or money.
- Those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public.
- The friar bird.
- An assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor.
- The red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.
- Garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison.
- A law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- 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.
- Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant.
- Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable.
- Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit.
- Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land.
- Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean.
- Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected.
- Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager
- Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected.
- So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
- Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
- Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable.
- Humble; meek.
- Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.
- Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving.
- Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior.
- Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality.
- Relating to or characterized by poverty.
- Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
- Deserving or inciting pity
- Yielding little by great labor
- Moderate to inferior in quality
- Not sufficient to meet a need
- Unsatisfactory
- Characterized by or indicating lack of money
- Badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances
- Having little money or few possessions
- Low in degree
BAD vs POOR: VERB
- To shell (a walnut).
- Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
- N/A
BAD vs POOR: ADVERB
- Badly.
- With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
- Very much; strongly
- N/A
BAD vs POOR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Strongly
- Very much
- Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- Serious or severe
- [Bad is the ordinary antithesis of good, in all its senses, whether positively, ‘evil,’ ‘harmful,’ or negatively, ‘not good,’ ‘not satisfactory,’ and whether substantively, ‘being evil,’ or causally, ‘causing harm.’ The senses run into one another, the precise application being determined by the context.]
- Unfavorable; unfortunate: as, bad news; bad success.
- Not valid; not sound: as, a bad claim; a bad plea.
- Incorrect; faulty: as, a bad aim; bad English; a bad pronunciation.
- Not good; defective; worthless; poor; of no value: as, bad coin; bad debts; a bad soil; a bad crop; a bad piece of work; bad health.
- Ill; in ill health; sick; in unsound condition: as, to feel bad; to be bad with rheumatism; a bad hand or leg.
- Hurtful; noxious; having an injurious or unfavorable tendency or effect: with for: as, bad air or bad food; late hours are bad for the health; this step would be bad for your reputation or prospects.
- Offensive; disagreeable; troublesome; painful; grievous: as, bad treatment; a bad temper; it is too bad that you had to wait so long.
- Evil; ill; vicious; wicked; depraved: applied to persons, conduct, character, influence, etc.: as, a bad man; bad conduct; a bad life; a bad heart; bad influence, etc.
- (idiom) (that's too bad) Used in response to a protest or complaint to express insistence that the speaker's expectation be met.
- (idiom) (that's too bad) Used to express sadness or sympathy.
- (idiom) (half/so) Reasonably good.
- (idiom) (my bad) Used to acknowledge that one is at fault.
- (idiom) (in bad) In trouble or disfavor.
- (imperative) Bade.
- Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
- Lacking in quality or substances
- Characterized by or indicating poverty
- Of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- Humble; slight; insignificant: used modestly in speaking of things pertaining to one's self.
- Miserable; wretched: used in contempt.
- Unfortunate; to be pitied or regretted: much used colloquially as a vague epithet indicative of sympathy or pity for one who is sick, feeble, or unhappy, or of regret for one who is dead.
- Destitute of merit or worth; barren; jejune: as, a poor discourse; a poor essay.
- Lacking in spirit or vigor; feeble; impotent.
- Lacking in fertility; barren; exhausted: as, poor land.
- Lean; meager; emaciated: as, poor cattle.
- Mean; shabby: as, a poor outfit; poor surroundings.
- In particular— Of little consequence; trifling; insignificant; paltry: as, a poor excuse.
- Deficient in or destitute of desirable or essential qualities; lacking those qualities which render a thing valuable, desirable, suitable, or sufficient for its purpose; inferior; bad: as, poor bread; poor health; cattle in poor condition.
- Lacking means to procure the comforts of life; indigent; needy; necessitous; specifically, in law, so destitute or impoverished as to be dependent upon charity, or upon the poorrates; pauper.
- Possessing little; destitute of wealth: opposed to rich: as, a poor man; a poor community.
- To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.
BAD vs POOR: RELATED WORDS
- Sad, Wicked, Negative, Mediocre, Tough, Shitty, Atrocious, Rotten, Poor, Crappy, Dreadful, Awful, Horrid, Lousy, Terrible
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
BAD vs POOR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Sad, Wicked, Negative, Mediocre, Tough, Shitty, Atrocious, Rotten, Poor, Crappy, Dreadful, Awful, Horrid, Lousy, Terrible
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
BAD vs POOR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Office Bad Check Restitution Program to assist local merchants with bad check losses.
- Goto is not bad, its how people use them that can be bad.
- These few bad actors are going to give us a bad name.
- Unbelievably bad service and bad faith demonstrated over a fraudulent charge.
- OK to put pictures on your resume is BAD, very bad.
- My view is that bad managers create bad employees.
- City Furniture for bad service, bad furniture, bad attention.
- It is bad for the user experience, bad for SEO, and bad for developers who have to maintain pages.
- Mere negligence or bad judgment is insufficient for a finding of bad faith, at least under the bad faith statute.
- Bad things happen in every society, and bad people often get away with doing bad things.
- Poor Law inspections and massive land sales, although it is hard to imagine that the poor benefited when they swapped Catholic for Protestant landlords.
- These lead to poor organization, follow through, incomplete homework, and poor attention and vigilance in the classroom.
- These include poor credit history, payment delinquencies or even poor tax history.
- Evidently, officials who a poor fighting crime also conduct poor capital investigations and trials.
- Charge a lot kind of fees without notice and poor poor customer service.
- Poor implementation can lead to poor quality, delays in testing, and increased cost.
- Specialty glove, organic solvents Extremely expensive, poor physical properties, poor vs.
- Poor quality education give rise to poor economic conditions.
- They start talking about poor people being lazy, poor people not wanting to work, poor people not taking care of their kids.
- We are both poor, very poor, perfectly poor.
BAD vs POOR: QUESTIONS
- Was target hiding bad news from vulnerable customers?
- Are exclamation marks bad in professional environments?
- Does overthinking prevent bad things from happening?
- Is polyethylene terephthalate bad for the environment?
- Are Bad Bunny and Gabriela from 'Bad Bunny' engaged?
- Is Bad Moon's transformation scene in American Werewolf in London bad?
- Is it easier to leave a bad spouse than a bad neighbor?
- How to prevent bad smell or bad taste from a new Kettle?
- Are bad debts still bad when you use cash accounting principles?
- Is Seven Samurai better than the Good Bad Bad and ugly?
- Are schools serving poor students being shortchanged?
- What causes poor results from aspirated psychrometers?
- How does poor corporate communication affect employees?
- Do American banks treat the poor like Bangladeshis do the poor?
- How might poor leadership be evidence of poor leadership?
- Why should we not blame the poor for the poor children?
- Is it better to be humble and poor than rich and poor?
- Are children from frequently-poor families more likely to be poor?
- Why do poor countries have such a poor view of religion?
- Does poor government funding improve education in poor countries?