Emily Dickinson Lexicon

poor (-er, -est), adj. [ME < OFr < L. pauper, poor.] (webplay: comfortable, composition, day, ground, grows, health, heart, land, life, little, night, people, pitiable, pretty, rich, small, spirit, sufficient, tenderness, thing, unhappy, wealth, wholly, without, woman, words).

1. Bereaved; deprived of a loved one; dispossessed of the companionship of a close friend.
2. Pitiable; unfortunate; pathetic; hapless; wretched.
3. Lowly; indigent; needy; [fig.] vulnerable; subject to loss.
4. Sad; lost; forlorn; lonely.
5. Inferior; less in status; lower in prestige; [fig.] mortal; human; less glorious.
6. Destitute; needy; penniless; without possession; lacking personal property; [fig.] excluded; not included; left out.
7. Thrifty; frugal; sparing; stinting; scant; sparse; economical; careful.
8. Obscure; unknown; unsung; undervalued; nameless; anonymous; not noticed.
9. Irrelevant; inferior; paltry; inadequate; deficient; insufficient; unsatisfactory; less than ideal.