Poor

Synonyms Poverty-stricken, necessitous, in penury, impecunious, needy, in need/want, low-paid, in straitened circumstances, hard up, on one's beam-ends, underprivileged, penniless, as poor as a church mouse, bankrupt, insolvent, in the red, broke, cleaned out, strapped, stony broke, in Queer Street, craptastic, beggared, impoverished, beggarly, penurious, indigent, needful, badly off, in reduced circumstances, destitute, short of money, unable to make ends meet, deprived, without a sou, moneyless, bust, in debt, on the breadline, flat broke, strapped for cash, on one's uppers, skint, stone broke, and pauperized.

Synonyms Substandard, below par, deficient, faulty, inferior, abject, abysmal, awful, dismal, unsatisfactory, second-rate, jerry-built, crude, trashy, wretched, lamentable, pitiful, insufficient, execrable, crummy, bum, rotten, tatty, ropy, rubbish, pants, grotty, weak sauce, direful, below standard, bad, defective, imperfect, mediocre, appalling, atrocious, terrible, dreadful, low-grade, third-rate, shoddy, tinny, miserable, disappointing, deplorable, inadequate, unacceptable, frightful, dire, diabolical, sad, tenth-rate, duff, rubbishy, a load of pants, farkakte, craptacular, and egregious.

Synonyms Deficient in, wanting (in), low on, with an insufficiency of, lacking (in), short of/on, missing, and with too few/little.

Synonyms Unfortunate, luckless, hapless, ill-starred, pitiful, unlucky, unhappy, ill-fated, pitiable, and wretched.