2. meager, scarce, scanty, scant, sparse, exiguous, in short supply, at a premium, not to be had,
Inf. scarce as hen's teeth; lacking, wanting, short, short of, not enough, too little; slight, skimpy, scrimpy, stinted; shabby, beggarly, miserly, niggardly, stingy, puny, little, dinky, paltry, petty, piddling, Inf. picayune, pathetic, Inf. chintzy, Inf. measly; insignificant, unimportant, Archaic, seely, negligible, nugatory, inconsiderable, inconsequential.
3. barren, unproductive, unyielding, unfructuous, unfruitful, fruitless, infecund, unfecund, Bot. acarpous, sterile, effete; uncultivable, uncultivatable, fallow, uncultivated, unused, neglected; exhausted, depleted, drained, worn-out, impoverished; lean, empty, forlorn, bare, dry, arid, bald, waste, desolate, dead, naked.
4. unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, below standard, under or below par; inferior, low-grade, cheap, catchpenny, bargain-basement, U.S. SI. cheesy, Brit. SI. humpety, flimsy, jerry-built; weak, feeble, thin, defective, faulty, imperfect; second-rate, second-class, third-class, third-rate; mediocre, unprofessional, amateurish, not up to par or snuff; sorry, half-baked, SI. half-assed, sloppy, haphazard, careless, shoddy, slipshod, sleazy; mean, grubstreet, Inf. no good, Inf. junky, trashy, rubbishy, Chiefly Dial, footy, worthless, useless, valueless; bad, Inf. lousy, SI. crummy, SI. crappy, SI. rotten, miserable.
5. lean, thin, thin or skinny as a rail, skinny, lank, lanky; gaunt, scraggy, scrawny, emaciated, underfed, undernourished, starved, half-starved; bony, spindly, rawboned, skin and bones, mere flesh and bones.
6. cowardly, abject, mean, low, low-down, base, base-spirited, ignoble; dishonorable, disreputable, discreditable, disgraceful, shameful; contemptible, despicable, execrable, abominable; corrupt, wicked, depraved, perverted, debased, miscreant.
7. humble, modest, plain, simple, homespun, homely, rustic; plebian, common, commonplace, ordinary, everyday, average.
8. unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, down on one's luck, hapless; unhappy, miserable, wretched, pitiable, pitiful, sorry; unsuccessful, unprosperous, fortuneless; unblest, star-crossed, ill-starred, ill-fated, ill-omened, doomed, born under an evil star, jinxed. poorhouse, n. eleemosynary institution, house for paupers, Chiefly Brit, almshouse, beadhouse, Brit. workhouse; asylum, retreat, shelter, haven.
pop, v. 1. explode lightly, detonate, go off, fulminate, burst, bang, boom, report, shoot, shoot off or out.
2. Usu.
pop in or
off come or go suddenly, drop by, stop by, come by; leave quickly, depart, SI. split, rush out or off, take off.
3. insert, put in or into, set or place in, tuck in, slide in, slip in, push in, thrust in, stick in; put out, thrust out, stick out. -n. 4. light explosion, detonation, fulmination, boom, bang, report, shot, discharge.
5. soda, soda pop, soft drink, Inf. tonic, carbonated drink; cola, Trademark. Coca-Cola or Coke, Trademark. Pepsi-Cola or Pepsi.
pope, n. Rom. Cath. Ch. Bishop of Rome, Supreme Pontiff, Holy Father, his Holiness, the Vicar of Christ, the successor of Peter, the Servant of the Servants of God, Rare, papa; Eastern Ch. patriarch of Alexandria.