poor vs terrible

poor

adj
  • Used to express pity. 

  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

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

  • 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. 

terrible

adj
  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

adv
  • In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully. 

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