Poor relation

Definition

poor /pƱǝ(r); Brit also pↄ:(r)/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ အေျခခံ လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကိုပင္မဝယ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ဆင္းရဲေသာ။ ႏြမ္းပါးေသာ။ 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 နည္းပါးေသာ။ a country poor in minerals ❍ soil poor in nutrients. ၃။ (က) ညံ့ေသာ။ အားရစရာ မေကာင္းေသာ။ 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) ညံ့ေသာ။ အားနည္းေသာ။ ၿပိန္ဖ်င္းေသာ။ ယုတ္ညံ့ေသာ။ 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) ႏံုခ်ာေသာ။ မေကာင္း ေသာ။ ေရွာ္ေသာ။ 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) ညံ့ဖ်င္းေသာ။ စိတ္ဓာတ္ညံ့ေသာ။ အရည္အခ်င္းညံ့ေသာ။ ပဲ့ေသာ။ 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 ေကာင္းေသာ။ 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] ဆင္းရဲသူဆင္းရဲသား။ မရိွႏြမ္းပါး။ raising money for the poor and needy. ❏ the poor man's sb/sth [ IDM ] မရိွသံုးသံုးရေသာ အရာ။ သစ္မရခင္စပ္ၾကား ဝါးေပါင္းကြတ္သည့္သေဘာ သံုးေသာအရာ။ Sparkling white wine is the poor man's champagne. ❏ poor relation n ဒုတိယတန္းစား။ Some people may regard radio as the poor relation of broadcasting. ❏ poor White n ( usu derog or offensive ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုေတာင္ပိုင္းမွ) ႏြမ္းပါးေသာ လူျဖဴ။ မ်က္ႏွာျဖဴငမြဲ။

Examples

1. A poor family/area/country
2. We were very poor and could barely afford the necessities of life.
3. The gap between the rich and the poor
4. The rebels’ defences were poor and they were quickly overcome.
5. Poor light/soil
6. Poor health/eyesight/hearing
7. Poor housing conditions
8. I was always put with the poorest students in the class.
9. Food with poor nutritional value
10. A country poor in natural resources
11. [poor (little) boy/child/girl/kid/mite/soul etc] : The poor child had lost both his parents.
12. [poor old] : Poor old Anthony was left to look after the baby.