(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
(9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
(12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
(14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
(20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.
Shirtless
Definition:
(a.) Not having or wearing a shirt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first half had been a largely featureless affair, notable only for the two shirtless cheerleaders among Newcastle’s support giving in to the cold and getting dressed after 15 minutes, and the quality of Shaqiri’s crosses into Newcastle’s penalty area.
(2) Yet grisly pictures on Xinhua's website show a shirtless man covered in purple splotches lying on a hospital bed, his left arm awkwardly splayed across his chest.
(3) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
(4) If I said to you I didn't want to see him shirtlessly accomplishing his heroic twelve labors I'd be a liar.
(5) Chanel’s boyfriend Chad (Glen Powell, looking about 10 years too old to play college) is the only one who can match Chanel in his viciousness (and looks mighty fine in his many shirtless scenes).
(6) His tiger-stalking and shirtless fly-fishing image, coupled with an ability to deliver increased standards of living brought him, until as recently as 2010, approval ratings of around 80%.
(7) A shirtless young man shimmied down a lamppost after scrawling "Leave you murderer" across a billboard of the president's face.
(8) The police know this and the wood passes through,” admits Felipe Portocarrero, a powerfully built timber merchant sitting shirtless on a deckchair at a sawmill on the Yavari river, which marks the border between Peru and Brazil.
(9) Tyson Fury has no excuse | John Amaechi Read more At the eye of the well-lubricated storm is Tyson Fury , shirtless and ruddy-faced and draped in an Irish flag.
(10) Putin, who is fiercely secretive about his private life, has built an image of a robust, active leader through shirtless photo-ops and high-octane stunts.
(11) By dawn, marines were storming apartment 401 to pick up a bleary-eyed and shirtless Chapo before he had time to react.
(12) A shirtless addict who had just pissed into a pail in the corner helped me.
(13) Handler’s outrage at Instagram over a funny picture mocking Vladimir Putin’s infamous shirtless-on-horse shot , for example, was focused on a double standard that assumes breasts’ innocuousness: “If a man posts a photo of his nipples, it’s ok, but not a woman?
(14) On a stifling day you'll find shirtless men from the neighbourhood drinking leisurely after work.
(15) In 2010, the university sued General Motors for grafting the scientist's head onto the body of a well-toned, shirtless man in an ad in People magazine.
(16) The crowd was markedly diverse, ranging from visibly leftwing activists to shirtless men with chest tattoos.
(17) Undated photos provided by police showed a shirtless, tattooed Barnes brandishing two weapons, a large rifle and a smaller firearm with a large clip.
(18) There is the Putin factor: we don’t want to do anything to encourage more shirtless swaggering from the Russian leader, not in the Middle East, not anywhere.” The book also claims Johnson “wanted to punch” his Brexit ally Michael Gove after the former justice secretary announced his own bid to become prime minister on the morning of a speech in which Johnson was to announce his own candidacy, a move that ended up destroying both men’s chances and paving the way for Theresa May to enter No 10.
(19) In the article inside, the magazine, which has generally portrayed Putin in a positive light and once showed him shirtless on the cover, describes Navalny favourably, noting the irregularities that marred his trial and the view that the charges were fabricated.
(20) He was sweet and excessively shirtless as the token hunk in Tamara Drewe but he has also been psychotic in the grisly No One Lives and a brace of Fast & Furious films (six and seven, if you’re wondering).