poorest

adjlacking sufficient money
adjdeficient, inadequate
adjweak, unfertile
adjunfortunate, unhappy

Synonyms for poorest

adj lacking sufficient money

Antonyms for poorest

Word Origin & History

c.1200, "lacking money or resources, destitute; needy, indigent; small, scanty," from Old French povre "poor, wretched, dispossessed; inadequate; weak, thin" (Modern French pauvre), from Latin pauper "poor, not wealthy," from pre-Latin *pau-paros "producing little; getting little," a compound from the roots of paucus "little" (see paucity) and parare "to produce, bring forth" (see pare).

Replaced Old English earm. Figuratively from early 14c. Meaning "of inferior quality" is from c.1300. Of inhabited places from c.1300; of soil, etc., from late 14c. The poor boy sandwich, made of simple but filling ingredients, was invented and named in New Orleans in 1921. To poor mouth "deny one's advantages" is from 1965 (to make a poor mouth "whine" is Scottish dialect from 1822). Slang poor man's ________ "the cheaper alternative to _______," is from 1854.

Example Sentences for poorest

After that, Midas lived in the country and dressed as plainly as the poorest peasant.

But even in that little hole his family was the poorest there.

The people were the poorest and most barbarous which he had met.

She was in rags, barefoot, like the poorest nomad of them all.

Their doors were constantly open to the poorest and the most ignorant.

But he could not have been the one to pay as he is the poorest of us all.

Why seat him in the poorest pew because his clothes are old?

Regrets, unavailing regrets, are the poorest companions possible.

I may be the poorest M.D. that ever put up a sign, but I'm going to put that sign up just the same.

If they could have spoken the poorest commonplaces, the spell might have dissolved.

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