POOR vs PITIABLE: 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.
- N/A
POOR vs PITIABLE: ADJECTIVE
- Humble; meek.
- Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable.
- Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.
- Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
- 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
- Negative, unfavorable, or disapproving.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager
- Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected.
- Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean.
- Low in degree
- Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit.
- Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable.
- Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant.
- 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.
- Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land.
- That deserves, evokes or can be given pity, pitiful.
- Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous
- Arousing disdainful pity. : pathetic.
- Arousing or deserving of pity or compassion; lamentable.
- Deserving or inciting pity
- Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
POOR vs PITIABLE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.
- 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.
- Mean; shabby: as, a poor outfit; poor surroundings.
- Lean; meager; emaciated: as, poor cattle.
- Of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- Characterized by or indicating poverty
- Lacking in quality or substances
- Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
- 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.
- Deserving pity; worthy of or exciting compassion: applied to persons or things.
POOR vs PITIABLE: RELATED WORDS
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
- Hopeless, Abject, Deplorable, Half assed, Lame, Unfortunate, Misfortunate, Poor, Contemptible, Miserable, Hapless, Piteous, Wretched, Pitiful, Pathetic
POOR vs PITIABLE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful
- Hopeless, Abject, Deplorable, Half assed, Lame, Unfortunate, Misfortunate, Poor, Contemptible, Miserable, Hapless, Piteous, Wretched, Pitiful, Pathetic
POOR vs PITIABLE: 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.
- The patient in pain has been reduced to a pitiable whimpering object.
- The family were in a pitiable plight today when visited by Mrs.
- At worst, those words and deeds seem amusing or pitiable.
- Frequent and often pitiable petitions for increases were usually granted.
- The Tale of Genji, where it referred to pitiable qualities.
- Most of the monuments are in a pitiable state.
- There is a terrible, pitiable creation in town.
- The pitiable results we see come from this.
- How can she relate to my pitiable condition?
- Armstrong was in a pitiable condition of nerves.
POOR vs PITIABLE: 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?
- What is the most pitiable human situation in the Iliad?
- How does Sri Chandrasekharendra Yati describe the pitiable state of Lord Shiva?