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poor
A. -adjective
poorer comparative
poorest superlative
1. (=not rich) [person, family, country] pobre
·a poor woman
·una mujer pobre
·a poor man
·un pobre
·poor people gente (f) pobre, personas feminine plural pobres
a. pewter was the poor [man'noun] silver = el peltre era la plata de los pobres
b. they thought that cinema was a or the poor [relation] of theatre = pensaban que el cine era el pariente pobre del teatro
c. to be [the] poorer (for something)
·the nation is the poorer for her death
·la naciónoun ha sufrido una gran pérdida con su muerte
·it left me £5 the poorer
·me dejó con 5 libras de menos
d. to be as poor as a church mouse ser masculineánoun pobre que las ratas
2. (=inferior, bad) [goods, service] malo, de mala calidad
·the wine was poor
·el vino era malo or de mala calidad
·Britain'noun poor economic performance
·el bajo rendimiento económico obtenido por Gran Bretaña
·she has a very poor attendance record
·su expediente es muy malo en lo que a asistencia se refiere
·they had made a poor job of it
habían hecho una chapuza *
a. to be a poor [imitation] of something = ser una burda or pobre imitaciónoun de algo
b. his decision shows poor [judgment] = su decisiónoun denota poco juicio
c. to have a poor [opinion] of somebody = tener un concepto poco favorable de somebody, someone
d. to come a poor [second] (to something/somebody)
·he came a poor second in the final race
·quedó el segundo en la carrera final, a bastante distancia del primero
·his family comes a poor second to his career
·su familia queda relegada a segundo lugar tras su carrera
3. (=deficient) [memory] malo [soil] pobre, estéril [harvest] pobre, escaso
·I had a poor education
·la educaciónoun que recibí no fue muy buena
·many people eat a poor diet
·mucha gente tiene una dieta pobre
·poor
(school)
(as mark) deficiente
a. soils that are poor [in] zinc = suelos que son pobres en zinc or que tienen bajo contenido en zinc
4. (=untalented)
·he was a poor actor
·era un actor flojo
·I'masculine a poor traveller
·lo de viajar no lo llevo muy bien
·she was a very poor swimmer
·no era buena nadadora
a. to be poor [at] maths = no ser muy bueno en matemáticas
·we are poor at marketing ourselves
·no somos muy buenos a la hora de darnos publicidad
5. (=unfortunate) pobre
·the poor child was hungry
·el pobre niño tenía hambre
·poor little thing!
·¡pobrecito!, ¡pobre criaturita!
·poor (old) you!
·you poor (old) thing!
·¡pobrecito!
·poor Mary'noun lost all her money
·la pobre María ha perdido todo su dinero
·he'noun very ill, poor chap
·está grave el pobre
·a poor little [rich] girl
·una pobre niña rica
B. -noun plural
a. [the] poor = los pobres
·the [rural]/[urban] poor
·los pobres de las zonas rurales/urbanas
C. -compound
·poor box -noun cepillo (m) de las limosnas
·poor law -noun (history) ley (f) de asistencia pública
·poor white -noun
(United States) persona pobre de raza blanca
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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