Poor and Rundown

Poor

Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.

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

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

Rundown

Rundown noun - A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court).
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Synonyms for Rundown

Poor and rundown are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Rundown".

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / My Name Is Earl Improbably Cool Car: One of the obnoxious students has a mint 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, despite being sixteen and in a town implied to be largely poor and rundown.
  • Blue-Collar Warlock The young Timothy Hunter from The Books of Magic, who grew up poor in a rundown house where his unemployed, one-armed father spent all day slumped in front of the television watching old movies.
  • Film / Being There Innocent Inaccurate: Poor Chance is essentially kicked out of his home, left to wander the streets (this is worse in the movie, because the house is in a rundown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.), and becomes a respected political figure through sheer misunderstanding.
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