What is the meaning of poor?

noun

• People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group. )
  • usage: "the urban poor need assistance"
  • synonyms: poor people

adjective

• Deserving or inciting pity.
  • usage: "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
  • synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched
• Having little money or few possessions.
  • usage: "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
• Characterized by or indicating poverty.
  • usage: "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
• Lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances.
  • usage: "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
• Not sufficient to meet a need.
  • usage: "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
  • synonyms: inadequate, short
• Unsatisfactory.
  • usage: "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"