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貧しい · i-adjective

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	貧まずしい	貧まずしくない
Polite	貧まずしいです	貧まずしくないですalso 貧まずしくありません
Past polite	貧まずしかったです	貧まずしくなかったですalso 貧まずしくありませんでした
Past	貧まずしかった	貧まずしくなかった
Te-form	貧まずしくて	貧まずしくなくて
Adverbial	貧まずしく
Conditional	貧まずしければ	貧まずしくなければ
Tara conditional	貧まずしかったら	貧まずしくなかったら

Meanings

poor; needy; impoverished

Describes lack of money or material resources; used for people, families, countries, etc.

Extended use for non-material poverty: insufficient quantity, quality, or richness; e.g., poor vocabulary, scanty knowledge, meager harvest.

〈人ひと〉が貧まずしい家か庭ていに育そだつto grow up in a poor family
彼かれは貧まずしい家か庭ていに育そだったが、努ど力りょくして成せい功こうした。
He grew up in a poor family but succeeded through hard work.
貧まずしい暮くらしをするto live in poverty
戦せん後ご、多おおくの人ひとが貧まずしい暮くらしをしていた。
After the war, many people lived in poverty.
〈物もの〉が貧まずしい(something, e.g. vocabulary, content) is poor or inadequate
彼かれのレポートは内ない容ようが貧まずしい。
His report is lacking in substance.

貧びん乏ぼうN2sense 1
貧乏 is a colloquial noun/na-adjective for being poor, while 貧しい is the standard i-adjective usable in both spoken and written contexts.
乏とぼしいN2sense 2
乏しい focuses on a specific resource being scarce (経験が乏しい), while 貧しい can describe overall poverty or a general lack of richness.
貧ひん困こんN1sense 1
貧困 is a formal noun used in social, economic, or academic contexts (貧困問題), while 貧しい is the everyday adjective describing a person or thing as poor.
貧ひん弱じゃくN1
貧しい describes being poor in the sense of lacking money or resources, while 貧弱 describes something lacking substance, strength, or quality regardless of wealth.

豊ゆたかN3sense 1
豊か means rich or abundant, the direct opposite of 貧しい whether describing material wealth or richness of content.
裕ゆう福ふくN1sense 1
裕福 describes being financially well-off, contrasting with 貧しい in the sense of material poverty.
富ふ裕ゆう
貧しい means poor or lacking resources, the direct opposite of 富裕's meaning of being wealthy or affluent.

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富とむN1
貧しい means 'poor', the direct opposite of 富む when it refers to material wealth.
リッチ
貧しい is the everyday native Japanese word for 'poor', contrasting with リッチ's meaning of being wealthy.

まずいN4
貧しい sounds similar to まずい and shares the same first syllables, but it means poor or impoverished, unrelated to taste or skill.

From Old Japanese; the derivation is uncertain. The kanji 貧 ('poor') is a semantic match, not a phonetic component.