poor
/pʊə/
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poor /pƱǝ(r);Brit also pↄ:(r)/ adj (-er, -est )
၁။ အခြေခံ လိုအပ်ချက်များကိုပင်မဝယ်နိုင်သော။ ဆင်းရဲသော။ နွမ်းပါးသော။ She was too poor to buy clothes for her children. ❍ He came from a poor family. ❍ the poorer countries of the world.
၂။ ~ in sth နည်းပါးသော။ a country poor in minerals ❍ soil poor in nutrients.
၃။ (က) ညံ့သော။ အားရစရာ မကောင်းသော။ the party's poor performance in the election ❍ We had a poor crop of raspberries this year. ❍ Attendance at the concert was very poor.
(ခ) ညံ့သော။ အားနည်းသော။ ပြိန်ဖျင်းသော။ ယုတ်ညံ့သော။ poor food/light/soil ❍ a poor diet ❍ be in poor health ❍ having a poor opinion of sb (ie not respecting them) ❍ Her remarks were in very poor taste. (ဂ) နုံချာသော။ မကောင်း သော။ ရှော်သော။ his poor attempts to be witty ❍ Watching the event on television was a poor substitute for actually being there. ❍ She came a poor second (ie a long way behind the winner)
(ဃ) ညံ့ဖျင်းသော။ စိတ်ဓာတ်ညံ့သော။ အရည်အချင်းညံ့သော။ ပဲ့သော။ a poor judge of character ❍ a poor loser (ie one who shows anger at losing in games or sports) ❍ a poor sailor (ie sb who easily gets sick at sea)
၄။ (esp infml ) သနားစရာ ကောင်းသော။ The poor little puppy had been abandoned. ❍ Poor fellow, his wife has just died. ❍ ‘I've been feeling ill all week. ’ ❍ ‘Poor you!’
❏ the poor n [pl v] ဆင်းရဲသူဆင်းရဲသား။ မရှိနွမ်းပါး။ raising money for the poor and needy.
❏ the poor man's sb/sth [IDM ] မရှိသုံးသုံးရသော အရာ။ သစ်မရခင်စပ်ကြား ဝါးပေါင်းကွတ်သည့်သဘော သုံးသောအရာ။ Sparkling white wine is the poor man's champagne.
❏ poor relation n ဒုတိယတန်းစား။ Some people may regard radio as the poor relation of broadcasting.
❏ poor White n (usu derog or offensive ) (အထူးသဖြင့် အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုတောင်ပိုင်းမှ) နွမ်းပါးသော လူဖြူ။ မျက်နှာဖြူငမွဲ။
- A poor family/area/country
- We were very poor and could barely afford the necessities of life.
- The gap between the rich and the poor
- The rebels’ defences were poor and they were quickly overcome.
- Poor light/soil
- Poor health/eyesight/hearing
- Poor housing conditions
- I was always put with the poorest students in the class.
- Food with poor nutritional value
- A country poor in natural resources
- [poor (little) boy/child/girl/kid/mite/soul etc] : The poor child had lost both his parents.
- [poor old] : Poor old Anthony was left to look after the baby.
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