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poor thing

poor thing noun: someone or something to be pitied.

Noun

poor thing (plural poor things)

  1. Someone or something to be pitied.
    Synonyms:
    poor devil

poor thing meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Nepali

poor thing in Urdu

someone or something to be pitied
بیچارہ becārā

poor thing in Malayalam

poor thing
പാവം pāvaṁ

poor thing in Nepali

someone or something to be pitied
बिचरा bicarā

Synonyms of poor thing

Forms of poor thing

pluralpoor things

Questions about poor thing

What does poor thing mean?
Poor thing means someone or something to be pitied.
What is poor thing in Urdu?
Poor thing in Urdu is بیچارہ (becārā). See Poor thing meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is poor thing?
Poor thing is a noun.
What is the plural of poor thing?
The plural of poor thing is poor things.

Words near poor thing in the dictionary

  1. poor relations
  2. poor relief
  3. poor show
  4. poor sport
  5. poor sports
  6. poor thing
  7. poor things
  8. Poor Tom
  9. Poor Toms
  10. poor white trash
  11. poor's box

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poor thing (page history and authors); പാവം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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