Meanings (ES + gloss)
mishio • misio
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.
When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for c…
cutre • pobre
Of low quality.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a roo…
That was a poor performance.
pobre
Worthy of pity.
Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.
poco
Deficient in a specified way.
Cow's milk is poor in iron.
Phrases
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