Difference between Poor and Slum

POOR vs SLUM: NOUN

People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken 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.

A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
Same as Slimes.
A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural.
A dirty back street of a city, especially such a street inhabited by a squalid and criminal population; a low and dangerous neighborhood: chiefly in the plural: as, the slums of Whitechapel and Westminster in London.
In metallurgy, same as slime, 3: chiefly in the plural.
A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor.
A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

POOR vs SLUM: 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.
Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected.
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
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager
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.
Undernourished; lean. Used especially of animals.
Humble; meek.
Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable.
Deserving or inciting pity
Inadequate, insufficient
Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land.
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.
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.
Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean.
Garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison.

POOR vs SLUM: VERB

Visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
Spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive

POOR vs SLUM: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.
To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.

POOR vs SLUM: 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.
Of insufficient quantity to meet a need
Characterized by or indicating poverty
Lacking in quality or substances
Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
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.
To pet in a pitying, compassionate way.
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.
Lacking in fertility; barren; exhausted: as, poor land.

To keep to back streets.
To visit the slums of a city, often from mere curiosity or as a diversion.
(idiom) (slum it) To endure conditions or accommodations that are worse than what one is accustomed to.

POOR vs SLUM: RELATED WORDS

Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful

Indiscriminate, Neighbourhood, Hellhole, Hovel, Squatter, Ghetto, Neighborhood, Barrios, Barrio, Shanty, Favela, Shantytown, Slum area, Poor, Slummy

POOR vs SLUM: DESCRIBE WORDS

Pitiable, Low, Resourceless, Needy, Inferior, Pathetic, Deficient, Impoverished, Inadequate, Destitute, Miserable, Mediocre, Wretched, Bad, Pitiful

Random, Dump, Mess, Hill, Indiscriminate, Neighbourhood, Hovel, Squatter, Ghetto, Neighborhood, Barrio, Shanty, Shantytown, Poor, Slummy

POOR vs SLUM: 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.

Slum dwellers face some distinctive patterns of vulnerability.
Is HUD encouraging landlords to become Slum Lords?
Big help to slum dwellers and also architects.
III, Mahim and Naya Nagar Slum Area, Nr.
Rail Enthusiasts cleanliness of the slum with arrival.
Most of the city is now a SLUM!
Approach to Citywide Slum Upgrading and A Training Module for Designing and Implementing Citywide Slum Upgrading.
Slum Rehabilitation Authority set up by the Department of Housing for providing affordable housing and slum rehabilitation in the region.
Some other modifications, also introduced to the Slum Act, will further ensure enhancement of the slum redevelopment footprint in the commercial capital.
Raghunath Nagar Slum, Suka Vihar Slum, Satyanagar Pvt.

POOR vs SLUM: 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 government doing for Dharavi slum dwellers?
How often should NMC notify slum areas for construction?
What is integrated housing & slum development programme (ihsdp)?
When did Charlottesville demolish a black neighborhood slum?
What is the objective of Slum Rehabilitation Scheme?
Should developers be involved in slum rehabilitation projects?
Why are slum dwellers marginalised by their communities?
What are the slum rehabilitation schemes in Mumbai?
What happened to Deptford after the slum clearances?
Are slum residents vulnerable to political insecurity?

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POOR AND SLUM

POOR vs SLUM: NOUN

POOR vs SLUM: ADJECTIVE

POOR vs SLUM: VERB

POOR vs SLUM: INTRANSITIVE VERB

POOR vs SLUM: OTHER WORD TYPES

POOR vs SLUM: RELATED WORDS

POOR vs SLUM: DESCRIBE WORDS

POOR vs SLUM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

POOR vs SLUM: QUESTIONS