| Traduções principais |
| poor adj | (lacking money) (sem o necessário para viver) | pobre, humilde adj |
| | Many of us come from poor families. |
| | Muitos de nós vêm de famílias pobres. |
| poor adj | (unsatisfactory) (insatisfatório, não produtivo) | pobre adj |
| | The boss is unhappy with my poor performance. |
| | O chefe está descontente com o meu desempenho pobre. |
| poor adj | (pitiable, unfortunate) | pobre adj |
| | From poor beginnings, the politician went far in life. |
| | Tendo origem pobre, o político chegou longe na vida. |
| poor in [sth] adj + prep | (lacking) | escasso, pobre adj |
| | This soil is poor in nutrients. |
| | Este solo está pobre em nutrientes. |
| poor at [sth] adj + prep | (underachieving) | ruim adj |
| | He is very poor at maths. |
| | Ele é muito ruim em matemática. |
| the poor npl | (poor people) | pobres sm,pl |
| | The poor often don't have cars. |
| | Os pobres normalmente não têm carros. |
Formas compostas:
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| poor bastard n | vulgar, offensive, informal (person suffering misfortune) | desgraçado, coitado sm |
| | I really feel sorry for that poor bastard. |
dirt poor,
dirt-poor adj | mainly US, slang (poverty stricken) (muito pobre) | paupérrimo adj |
| | | pobre de marré deci expres |
| Nota: A hyphen is used when the adjective precedes the noun |
| | My family was dirt poor, but we always took care of our appearances. |
| poor box n | (receptacle for charitable donations) (caixa coletora para caridade) | caixa de contribuições loc sf |
| | (coleta de dinheiro para determinado objetivo) | caixinha sf |
| | People put coins into the poor box outside the church. |
| poor creature n | informal (unfortunate person) (pessoa infeliz) | pobre criatura sf |
| | | infeliz sm, sf |
| | The poor creature stood in the pouring rain without a coat or umbrella. |
poor excuse,
feeble excuse n | (unconvincing attempt to justify) | desculpa esfarrapada sf |
| | He gave a poor excuse for his absence. |
| | Having a cold is a very poor excuse for missing five days of work. |
| poor excuse for [sth] n | (bad example of) | arremedo de sm + prep |
| poor form n | (weak performance) (performance fraca) | desempenho ruim loc sm |
| | | apresentação fraca loc sf |
| poor form n | (feeble or inferior condition) (condição debilitada ou inferior) | fora de forma loc adj |
| | (física) | má forma loc adj |
| | She must be in really poor form today; she's limping and she looks pale. |
| poor form n | (bad manners) (mau costume) | maus hábitos loc sm |
| | | comportamento ruim loc adj |
| | It's really poor form to put your feet on the coffee table. |
| poor health n | (illness) (doença) | saúde ruim loc sf |
| | She has been in poor health ever since she caught bird 'flu last year. |
poor judgment,
also UK: poor judgement n | (making bad decisions) (tendência a tomar decisões ruins) | mau julgamento loc sm |
| | | falta de bom senso loc sf |
| | Elizabeth Taylor had notoriously poor judgement when it came to men. |
| poor man n | (man who lacks money) (homem que tem pouco dinheiro) | homem pobre loc sm |
| | | pobre sm |
| | He was a poor man and had to ask for food at the local church in order to feed his child. |
| poor man n | (man who is unfortunate) (homem que é infeliz) | pobre homem loc sm |
| | | pobre coitado loc sm |
| | That poor man has had nothing but bad luck. |
| poor performance n | (underachievement) (insucesso) | baixa performance sf |
| | | baixa produtividade sf |
| | | baixo rendimento sm |
| | He was fired because of his poor performance at work. |
| poor performance n | (failure to function properly) (falha em funcionar perfeitamente) | baixa performance sf |
| | | baixo rendimento sm |
| poor prognosis n | (prediction that illness will worsen) (predição de que a doença irá piorar) | prognóstico ruim loc sm |
| | My uncle is in hospital with cancer. He has received a poor prognosis - they think he will die. |
| poor quality n | (inferior quality) | má qualidade adj + sf |
| | The publisher refused to publish the book because of its poor quality. |
| poor-quality n as adj | (of inferior quality) | de má qualidade loc adj |
| poor sport n | ([sb]: cannot take joke) | mau perdedor adj + sm |
| | He´s such a poor sport that he thought I was being serious! |
| poor unfortunate n | ([sb] wretched) (miserável) | pobre coitado loc sm |
| | | infeliz sm |
| | That poor unfortunate lives under a bridge near the park. |
| poor unfortunate adj | (wretched) (miserável) | pobre coitado loc sm |
| | | infeliz sm |
| | Those poor unfortunate children have nowhere to live. |
| poor woman n | (woman who is unfortunate) | coitada sf |
poor boy,
poor-boy sandwich,
poorboy,
po'boy n | US, regional (submarine sandwich) (culinária, anglicismo) | po boy, po-boy sm |
white trash,
poor white trash n | pejorative, offensive, informal, US (poor white people) (informal, vulgar, pessoas pobres de pele branca) | gentalha sf |
| working poor npl | (people on very low income) | trabalhador de baixa renda loc sm |