Least and Poor

Least

Least adjective - The superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree.

Poor and least are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Least".

Poor

Poor adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.
Usage example: a poor crop because of the drought this year

Least and poor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Least" instead an adjective "Poor".

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The Devil-Doll He's Dead, Jim: Marcel, who has just victimized poor Lachna by turning her into an Incredible Shrinking Woman, at least has the good grace to have a heart attack and die when he realizes that he has made a tiny zombie instead of an intelligent tiny person.
  • Enter Navarone, a poor human just trying to get by—or at least, to the ponies that's what he looks like.
  • Video Game / Mana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy They (with the exception of Puniyo, who instead had a comic Heroic B.S.O.D.) later deliver a beatdown not to the girl, but to the poor guy that has the least involvement: Raze!
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