below par vs poor

below par

prep
  • Not up to the average or normal standard. 

  • (of a score) Less than par for the hole or course (which in golf, means better than par). 

  • Having a price below its face value. 

poor

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

adj
  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

How often have the words below par and poor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )