Other words for poor
1. needy, indigent, impoverished, destitute, penniless, poverty-stricken, necessitous, straitened.
So try using “people experiencing homelessness” or “people living in the streets” instead of “the homeless,” “a person living below the poverty line” instead of “the poor,” “people who use drugs” instead of “drug users.”
The most widely used British slang words for poor are skint or strapped. These are ways of saying you or someone else has no money. There are other phrases such as “tightening your belt,” though this just implies a careful budgeting as opposed to outright poverty. Skint is the most common term.
garbage. good-for-nothing. grungy. inferior. junky.
Comment: Many find the terms “low class” and “poor” pejorative. Use person-first language instead. Define income brackets and levels if possible.
The Middle Class: Not Rich, Not Poor, But Uncertain Of The Future. Features.
A poor is an individual who does not have the minimum essential necessities of life. Women, infants and elderly are considered as the poorest of the poor. This is because, in a poor household, these people suffer the most and are deprived of the maximum necessities in life.
The comparative form is poorer, not more poor. "I am poorer than David." The superlative form is poorest.
The Difference Between Needy and Poor
According to some guidelines, poor in the economic sense means living in poverty (Not having enough money to live). Needy in the economic sense means being unable to obtain the basic necessities of life (food, clothes, etc.).
"On the floor" (poor)
On the floor = poor.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).
A philanthropist is a person who gives money or gifts to charities, or helps needy people in other ways. Famous examples include Andrew Carnegie and Bill & Melinda Gates. In English, the -ist suffix describes a person who does a particular action. A philanthropist practices philanthropy.
poot (plural poots) (childish) A fart, perhaps a relatively quiet one.
There are four kinds of poverty typically discussed: absolute, relative, situational, and generational. Absolute poverty is when one is unable to meet basic needs due to a lack of resources.
Absolute Poverty and Relative Poverty are two terms used to measure this poverty level.
Poverty is a type of social exclusion that comes when an individual or family fails to meet an established threshold. The two ways poverty can be measured are as absolute poverty or relative poverty.
Income inequality is defined as the difference in how income is distributed among individuals and/or populations. It is also described as the gap between rich and poor, wealth disparity, wealth and income differences, or the wealth gap. (