(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.
Slipshod
Definition:
(a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
(a.) Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) City enjoyed their advantage for too little time and it was a pity their rear guard was so slipshod as the Spaniard’s goal was a beauty.
(2) Lord Bingham said: "Weight should ordinarily be given to the professional judgment of an editor or journalist in the absence of some indication that it was made in a casual, cavalier, careless or slipshod manner."
(3) Spurs seem to go behind even when they win – as well as getting biffed on the chin in heavy defeats by Chelsea and Liverpool – so for all the credit they deserve in fighting back for a draw, they bring ridicule for the slipshod manner in which they get themselves into a hole.
(4) He noted that an estimated 14% of suspects freed from Guantánamo returned to the battlefield, but blamed that on the Bush administration's slipshod process of selecting which to let loose.
(5) Further slipshod marking meant Lars Stindl was in yards of space, and this time Hart was given no chance and City were in serious trouble.
(6) John Keats described it as a “splashy, rainy, misty ... floody, muddy slipshod County”.
(7) Indeed, given the slipshod nature of their policies, the new government has thinking to do as well.
(8) As seen in these factors, the somatic patients were relatively easy-going, slipshod, and accepting of change.
(9) The city’s financing had become so slipshod and haphazard that it no longer even maintained an official set of books.
(10) The Lords is another matter: the slipshod way in which peers are created warps the operation of parliament.
(11) But industry problems have persisted in the Arctic, including slipshod maintenance of key parts of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and North Slope oil facilities.
(12) Our analysis finds previously undisclosed evidence of slipshod use of data and apparent efforts to cover that up.
(13) If there was going to be much fun they really needed to be slipshod, bloated with the complacency of millionaires.
(14) But the display against Stoke was as slipshod as it had been in the 2-1 home defeat by Norwich City , suggesting the side have lost faith in Van Gaal and he admitted: “We didn’t dare to play our football.” But asked if he had no ideas left of how to raise his squad for Chelsea’s visit, Van Gaal said: “No.