Crossword clues for poorest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poor \Poor\, a. [Compar. Poorer (?; 254); superl. Poorest.] [OE. poure or povre, OF. povre, F. pauvre, L. pauper; the first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few (see Paucity, Few), and the second to parare to prepare, procure. See Few, and cf. Parade, Pauper, Poverty.]
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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
Note: It is often synonymous with indigent and with necessitous denoting extreme want. It is also applied to persons who are not entirely destitute of property, but who are not rich; as, a poor man or woman; poor people.
(Law) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
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Hence, in very various applications: Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected; as:
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. ``Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed.''
--Gen. xli. 19.Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. ``His genius . . . poor and cowardly.''
--Bacon.Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. ``A poor vessel.''
--Clarendon.Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
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Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
--Calamy.
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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.
And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray.
--Shak.Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing.
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Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. ``Blessed are the poor in spirit.''
--Matt. v. 3.Poor law, a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor.
Poor man's treacle (Bot.), garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. [Eng]
--Dr. Prior.Poor man's weatherglass (Bot.), the red-flowered pimpernel ( Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.
Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor.
Poor soldier (Zo["o]l.), the friar bird.
The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public. ``I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves.''
--Franklin.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: poor).
WordNet
adj. the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class" [syn: bottom]
Usage examples of "poorest".
I understand he has relations in London of the very poorest class--labouring people.
I go as poor as the poorest of you, a mechanical engineer in search of work.
I lived among the vilest and poorest of the people, and my imagination was constantly at boiling-point.
Go along the poorest street in the East End of London, and you will hear as much laughter, witness as much gaiety, as in any thoroughfare of the West.
Even Native Americans, who are among the poorest of the poor, have fewer children living in poverty than African-Americans.
And the doubters and naysayers who abound in oppressed countries may catch on that just the three richest men in America own more personal assets than the combined assets owned by the entire populations of the sixty poorest countries.
That the poorest and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads, and in the clearing of navigable streams within their limits, is what no person will deny.
Plagenburg, about six English miles square, on which are some of the poorest mud-huts I ever saw.
At the entreaty of his friends he settled at Brussels, where there was a wide field for labor amongst the poorest of the Roman Catholics, who speak only Flemish.
The line of railway did not conduct us near any towns or villages that I could observe, but by some of the poorest scattered huts I ever saw in any country.
Cornelius with obvious potential stuck for the rest of his life in penury somewhere amid the stews of the poorest parts of Rome?
Comoor, the poorest yet handsomest of us, was taking a turn on the Falls Promenade, flashing his vaunted grin at all the strolling young women.
The mummifying of the poor was cheap, and that of the poorest had to be provided by the kolchytes as a tribute to the king, to whom also they were obliged to pay a tax in linen from their looms.
No wonder even the poorest, most wretched girl of the slums could cling to her man and forget her surroundings for a moment.
We draw the stylus again and Lords of the First Rank make their position clear, they on one side and all of society on the other, and so on down to the paper screens of the poorest street vendor.