Definition of Poor

• people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
• 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"
• having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"