With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
Of low quality.
That was a poor performance.
Used to express pity.
Oh you poor little thing.
Deficient in a specified way.
Cow's milk is poor in iron.
Inadequate, insufficient.
I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.