n. people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

adj. characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

adj. having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

adj. not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

adj. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

adj. lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

adj. arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

adj. characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"

adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

adj. not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

adj. (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

adj. lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

adj. lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

adj. not intense; "low-level radiation"

adj. well below normal (especially in price)

adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

adj. producing no fruit

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

adj. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. aground as a consequence of a shipwreck

adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

adj. marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

adj. marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series

adj. deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

n. people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group); "only the very rich benefit from this legislation"

n. people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group); "only the very rich benefit from this legislation"

adj. suggestive of or characterized by great expense; "a rich display"

adj. rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"

adj. possessing material wealth; "her father is extremely rich"; "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"

adj. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"

adj. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"

adj. productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"