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poor relation

/ˌpɔː rɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˌpɔː rɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
ˌpɔːrɪˈleɪʃən
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
3rd syllable stress
Vowel
Aw vowel
Ending
Final -tion sounds like shun

ˌpɔː - rɪ - ˈleɪʃən -> poor relation

Myanmar meaning

မိသားစုတစ်ခုတွင် လက်အောက်ခံ။ အုပ်ချုပ်ခံ အဖွဲ့ဝင်။

Full entry

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။

More examples
  • 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.
Synonyms
deprived, unfortunate, underprivileged, meager, reduced, pitiable, bad, bad off, badly off, bankrupt, bare, barren, base, beggared, beggarly, behind eight ball, below par, broke, commiserable, common, contemptible, crude, deficient, depleted, destitute, diminutive, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down-and-out, dwarfed, empty-handed, exhausted, exiguous, faulty, feeble, flat, flat broke, fortuneless, fruitless, hapless, hard up, have-nots, humble, ill-fated, impaired, impecunious, imperfect, impoverished, in need, in want, inadequate, incomplete, indigent, indisposed, inferior, infertile, infirm, insignificant, insolvent, insufficient, lacking, low, low-grade, lowly, luckless, mean, mediocre, miserable, modest, moneyless, necessitous, needy, niggardly, ordinary, paltry, pathetic, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, piteous, pitiful, plain, poverty-stricken, puny, rotten, rueful, scanty, second-rate, shabby, shoddy, sick, skimpy, skint, slight, sorry, sparse, sterile, stone broke, strapped, subnormal, subpar, substandard, suffering, trifling, trivial, truly needy, unfertile, unfruitful, unhappy, unlucky, unproductive, unprosperous, unsatisfactory, valueless, weak, worthless, wretched
Antonyms
able, abnormal, adequate, affluent, big, bold, brave, excellent, extraordinary, fertile, formal, fortunate, full, great, happy, haves, healthy, important, large, lucky, monied, nice, noble, old money, potent, privileged, refined, rich, significant, solvent, sophisticated, strong, sufficient, superior, tall, uncommon, wealthy
Cross references
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