Cupidity vs Poor - What's the difference?
cupidity | poor |
Extreme greed, especially for wealth.
* 1857 , , Volume the First, page 11 (ISBN 1857150570)
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* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 784:
With little or no possessions or money.
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Of low quality.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 Deficient in a specified way.
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Inadequate, insufficient.
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*(w) (1600-1666)
*:That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
*(Bible), (w) v.3
*:Blessed are the poor in spirit.
(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
As nouns the difference between cupidity and poor
is that cupidity is extreme greed, especially for wealth while poor is (with "the") those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.As an adjective poor is
with little or no possessions or money.cupidity
English
Noun
(cupidities)- His affairs, however, were not allowed to subside thus quietly, and people were quite as much inclined to talk about the disinterested sacrifice he had made, as they had before been to upbraid him for his cupidity .
citation, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity . …”}}
- Humanity had always been fascinated by the mystery of the falling dice, the turn of a card, the spin of the pointer. At its lowest level, this interest was based on mere cupidity —and that was an emotion that could have no place in a world where everyone possessed all that they could reasonably need.
- It was easy to dissimulate and disperse these modest purchases in such a way as not to excite the cupidity of any passing patrols.
Synonyms
* (extreme greed) avarice, covetousness; see alsoAnagrams
*poor
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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 room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
citation, passage=Mr. Campion sighed. ‘Poor man,’ he said. ‘He sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.’}}
Synonyms
* (little or no possessions) impoverished, wealthless, * (of low quality) inferior * (to be pitied) pitiable, * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little or no possessions) rich * (of low quality) good * (deficient in a specified way) rich * (inadequate) adequateDerived terms
* poor man's * dirt poor * house poor * land poor * piss-poor * poor as a church mouse * poor box * poorhouse * poor power * poor relationNoun
(en-plural noun)- The poor are always with us.