POOR vs MEDIOCRE: NOUN
- Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
- People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
- Poor people considered as a group.
- A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
- In England, a gadoid fish, Gadus minutus.
- One of middling quality, talents, or merit.
- A monk between twenty-four and forty years of age, who was excused from the office of the chantry and from reading the epistle and gospel, but performed his duty in choir, cloister, and refectory.
- A mediocre person; a mediocrity.
- A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.
POOR vs MEDIOCRE: ADJECTIVE
- Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
- So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
- Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected.
- Having little money or few possessions
- Badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances
- Characterized by or indicating lack of money
- Unsatisfactory
- Not sufficient to meet a need
- Moderate to inferior in quality
- Yielding little by great labor
- Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.
- Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
- Relating to or characterized by poverty.
- Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality.
- Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior.
- Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving.
- Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager
- Humble; meek.
- Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable.
- Deserving or inciting pity
- Inadequate, insufficient
- Deficient in a specified way.
- To be pitied.
- Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected.
- 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.
- Low in degree
- Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean.
- Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land.
- Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit.
- Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable.
- Of low quality.
- 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.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- A law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor.
- Garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison.
- The red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.
- An assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor.
- Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant.
- Lacking exceptional quality or ability
- Ordinary: not extraordinary; not special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality;
- Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.
- Of ordinary or undistinguished quality. : average.
- Of no exceptional quality or ability
- Poor to middling in quality
- Moderate to inferior in quality
POOR vs MEDIOCRE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Possessing little; destitute of wealth: opposed to rich: as, a poor man; a poor community.
- 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.
- 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.
- In particular— Of little consequence; trifling; insignificant; paltry: as, a poor excuse.
- Of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- Characterized by or indicating poverty
- Lacking in quality or substances
- Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
- Mean; shabby: as, a poor outfit; poor surroundings.
- To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.
- Lacking in fertility; barren; exhausted: as, poor land.
- Lacking in spirit or vigor; feeble; impotent.
- Destitute of merit or worth; barren; jejune: as, a poor discourse; a poor essay.
- 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.
- Miserable; wretched: used in contempt.
- Humble; slight; insignificant: used modestly in speaking of things pertaining to one's self.
- Lean; meager; emaciated: as, poor cattle.
- Of moderate degree or quality; middling; indifferent; ordinary.
POOR vs MEDIOCRE: RELATED WORDS
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
- Shoddy, Indifferent, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Lackluster, Unimpressive, Second rate, Fair, Ordinary, Average, Bad, Poor, Inferior, Middling
POOR vs MEDIOCRE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
- Shoddy, Indifferent, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Lackluster, Unimpressive, Second rate, Fair, Ordinary, Average, Bad, Poor, Inferior, Middling
POOR vs MEDIOCRE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- 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.
- Pretty mediocre by any standards and trending worse.
- If you are going to put in a mediocre effort, you are going to get a mediocre result.
- An excellent writer can elevate a mediocre storyline, and a mediocre writer can drag down a powerful storyline.
- Some games are mediocre with great dungeons whereas others are great with mediocre ones.
- Customer feedback questions to include in a survey basics to include tested, but mediocre questions yield mediocre.
- And functionality but mediocre questions yield mediocre answers you look up to in this business cupcake business ca be.
- You get a mediocre TV and a mediocre DVD player.
- They all also have quality issues as there just kinda mediocre made keyboards with mediocre internal components.
- Among these mediocre minds and their mediocre truths, Nietzsthe broad fascination that characterized theory of natural selection.
- "Mediocre coach for a mediocre team," wrote one blogger succinctly when the news broke.
POOR vs MEDIOCRE: QUESTIONS
- 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?
- Is it possible to be mediocre but change the world?
- Why do we think the fair maiden is mediocre looking?
- What's the most mediocre number in MTG deck building?
- What's wrong with being average or mediocre in life?
- Does traffic signal box public art need mediocre boxes?
- Were the Beatles really a band of mediocre musicians?
- Why did Madonna call Whitney Houston'horribly mediocre'?
- Why is Mekakucity Actors considered a mediocre anime?
- Why is credentialism so attractive to the mediocre?
- Are valedictorians more successful than mediocre students?