gilt-edged vs poor

gilt-edged

• Of the highest quality. 

• Having gilded edges. 

• Issued by the Bank of England. 

poor

• 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. 

• A poor person. 

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

• Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.