Obsolete spelling of poor

An English surname.

simple past tense and past participle of poor

With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. / Of low quality. / Used to express pity. / Deficient in a specified way. / Inadequate, insufficient.

(plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

(countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person. / (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.

(transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. / (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor. / (obsolete) To call poor.

The quality of being poor / poverty

plural of poorness

present participle of poor