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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking sufficient money |
| Synonyms: | bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, behind eight ball, broke*, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat broke, flat*, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in want, indigent, insolvent, low, meager, moneyless, necessitous, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced, scanty*, stone broke, strapped, suffering, truly needy, underprivileged, unprosperous |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, unfertile |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, depleted, exhausted, feeble, fruitless, impaired, imperfect, impoverished, indisposed, infertile, infirm, puny, sick, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, worthless |
| Antonyms: | fertile, potent, strong |
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | commiserable, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rueful, unlucky, wretched |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
| Synonyms: | abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without covering or content |
| Synonyms: | arid, barren, blank, bleak, clear, desert, desolate, empty, lacking, mean, open, poor, scanty, scarce, stark, unfurnished, vacant, vacuous, void, wanting |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | covered, full |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, depraved, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, foul, grovelling, humble, ignoble, immoral, indelicate, loathsome, lowly, mean, menial, offensive, paltry, pitiful, plebeian, poor, scandalous, servile, shameful, shoddy, sleazy, sordid, sorry, squalid, trashy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, moral, noble |
| Main Entry: | below par |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | second-rate in quality |
| Synonyms: | below average, imperfect, inferior, lacking, not oneself, off, off-form, poor, substandard, under the weather, wanting |
| Main Entry: | broke |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without money |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggared, bust, cleaned out, destitute, dirt poor, flat broke, impoverished, in Chapter 11, in debt, indebted, indigent, insolvent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, ruined, stone broke, strapped, tapped out |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, solvent, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, low in quality |
| Synonyms: | bad, base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy*, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, poor, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless |
| Notes: | cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp |
| Antonyms: | excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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