"poor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

poor adjetivo

poor + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 536
poor condition • poor performance • poor country • poor health • poor quality • poor neighborhood • poor woman • poor girl • ...
verbo + poor
Kolokacji: 10
work poor • consider poor • born poor • grow poor • become poor • ...
adverbio + poor
Kolokacji: 41
relatively poor • extremely poor • generally poor • desperately poor • pretty poor • ...
(2) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) pretty, fairly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 3
1. pretty poor = całkiem biedny pretty poor
2. fairly poor = dość biedny fairly poor
3. somewhat poor = nieco biedny somewhat poor
  • He also had somewhat poor relations with state legislators.
  • The latter should occurr about a year after the former, so you can see he is in a somewhat poor political situation.
  • Upon its release the novel received somewhat poor reviews.
  • The school's academic record was somewhat poor in the first two decades with few pupils achieving any qualifications.
  • The feeling he seems to project is it is in somewhat poor taste.
  • He was therefore raised separately from his brother, living an average, somewhat poor life.
  • "It seems that we are rich again, Son, who have been somewhat poor of late years," said my mother, looking at the bags of gold.
  • Robinson grew up somewhat poor in a fairly rich community.
  • Later in spring training, after some somewhat poor performances, Robinson was moved from shortstop to second base.
  • "I fear he will find us a somewhat poor and uncultivated lot in these remote parts."
(5) wretchedly, miserably
Kolokacji: 2
(6) unexpectedly, surprisingly
Kolokacji: 2
poor + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
poor in • poor for • poor of • poor with • poor to • ...

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