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poorly
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "inadequately, badly, insufficiently," from poor (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "in ill health" is from 1750.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poorly \Poor"ly\, a. Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health. ``Having been poorly in health.'' --T. Scott.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. ill, unwell, sick adv. 1 In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort. 2 With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage. 3 Meanly; without spirit. 4 Without skill or merit.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing , indisposed , peaked(p) , poorly(p) , ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be well/extensively/poorly etc documented ▪ It is well documented that men die younger than women. beautifully/skilfully/poorly etc executed ▪ The skaters’ routine was perfectly executed. poorly lit ▪ a poorly lit ...
Usage examples of poorly.
The moment we set foot on shore, two men, very poorly dressed and of unprepossessing appearance, came to us and begged for assistance.
Aside from two poorly dated Neanderthal skulls from Germany and Gibraltar, and a few other little-reported finds of modern morphology, there were no discoveries of hominid fossil remains.
As monarchy has its danger, so does demarchy, the danger of any power: that poorly conceived as the opinions of its wielder may be, he wields it.
Zoroastrian dualism, the same arrogant assumption that the Goddess could be banished, when all that was banished was a poorly differentiated mythos that many ecofeminists have severely reinterpreted to fit their ideology.
Mahtra was ready to tell someoneanyonewhat had happened, but it was very difficult to keep her thoughts dear enough for the august emerita to understand without saying the words, however poorly, as they formed in her mind.
I am a fair horseman, can read English well and Arabic poorly, though I know none of the other languages of Gol Goth.
Bragadin had been as a father to me, living poorly, and even going into debt that I might have enough.
I was at last able to study, Madame Leotard tested me to see how much I knew, and finding that I read very well but wrote very poorly, considered it absolutely imperative to start teaching me French.
Cavius and Kidogo thought that their images were very lifelike, but insisted that Pandion had drawn his own portrait poorly.
He charged toward the Liten who had treated him so poorly, his focus on him and only him.
Though Spock preferred his greens to possess a distinct bite of chlorophyll, without any admixture of hemoglobin or myoglobin or whatever animal protein preceded the greens in the synthesizer, he could subsist on poorly designed food.
Miss Trent was at liberty to instruct her nurseling, neither her advice nor her assistance was required when Miss Charlotte was feeling poorly.
The things were full of cobwebs and dead insects and rat turds, poorly lit by the occasional inward-looking peephole or narrow slits or oillets in the exterior masonry.
Still he could not bring himself to put blame on her just so Orval might not think poorly of him.
Made girls be poorly, in the regular way, when their poorliness had stopped?