What is another word for "poor"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "poor": able, account, against, age, all, amateur, amnesia, amnesty, and, any, applicant, application, apply, aquila, are, arrear, aspirant, ass, attention, authority, away, awkward, back, background, bad, bagman, bald, bank, bankrupt, bankruptcy, bare, bashful, bashfulness, beat, become, beggar, behind, behindhand, bidder, bigwig.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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