poor vs showy

poor

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

  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Used to express pity. 

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

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

noun
  • A poor person. 

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

showy

adj
  • Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye 

  • Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display. 

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