Syllables World: Mastering Syllable Identification

How many syllables in Poor?

poor has 1 syllables

poor

having little or no money, goods, or means of support; deserving pity or sympathy

This word has one syllable. The vowel sound is 'oo' and the consonant sounds are 'p' and 'r'.

Adjective

The poor boy couldn't afford new clothes.

The poor have little, the beggars have less; and the less we deserve, the more we have reason to thank Heaven. - Charles Lamb
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. - Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer is a phrase that captures the essence of the income and wealth distribution in many societies. - Robert B. Reich
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. - Horace