Impaired vs Poor - What's the difference?
impaired | poor |
Rendered less effective
inebriated, drunk.
(impair)
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.
As adjectives the difference between impaired and poor
is that impaired is rendered less effective while poor is with little or no possessions or money.As nouns the difference between impaired and poor
is that impaired is a criminal charge for impaired driving while poor is (with "the") those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.As a verb impaired
is (impair).impaired
English
Adjective
(head)- His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "impaired" is often applied: vision, hearing, mobility, healing, fertility, health, judgment, cognition, consciousness, memory, concentration, function, performance, ability, capacity, person, child, adult. * Adverbs often applied to "impaired": visually, physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively.Verb
(head)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.