Gaunt vs Poor - What's the difference?
gaunt | poor | Related terms |
lean, angular and bony
* {{quote-book
, year=1894
, author=Joseph Jacobs
, title=The Fables of Aesop
, chapter=1
haggard, drawn and emaciated
* {{quote-book
, year=1917
, author=Arthur Conan Doyle
, title=His Last Bow
, chapter=5
bleak, barren and desolate
* {{quote-book
, year=1908
, author=William Hope Hodgson
, title=The House on the Borderland
, chapter=14
With little or no possessions or money.
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Of low quality.
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*, chapter=10
, title= To be pitied.
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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.
Gaunt is a related term of poor.
As adjectives the difference between gaunt and poor
is that gaunt is lean, angular and bony while poor is with little or no possessions or money.As a noun poor is
(with "the") those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.gaunt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.}}
citation, passage=In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt , wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart.}}
citation, passage=Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt , black cliffs. }}
Synonyms
* scraggy, scrawny, skinnypoor
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. βPoor man,β he said. βHe sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.β}}
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.