poorly (adv.) Copy link Outline 1. tĕnuĭter2. părum (but little; less than desired)3. mĕdiocrĭter4. mĭsĕrē • poorly (adv.): 1. tĕnuĭter: so so; poorly, sic, t., Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 95 to live p., *t. vivere, cf. POOR (III.). 2. părum (but little; less than desired): I am succeeding but p., p. succedit quod ago, id. Andr. 4, 1, 55: p. acquainted with civil law, *in jure civili p. versatus. 3. mĕdiocrĭter: v. indifferently. 4. mĭsĕrē: v. wretchedly. Phr.: p. clad, obsoletus (in old or shabby clothes), Cic. in Pis. 36, 89: vestitu obsoletiore, id. Agr. 2, 5, 13 (if the ref. be to inadequacy of clothing, tenuiter vestitus).
POORLY Copy link • POORLY 1. adverb, tenuiter (Ter., Phorm., 1, 2, 95); exiliter: to live poorly, parce or misere vivere (very poorly); tenuissimo cultu vivere. 2. adj., (Slightly indisposed), qui leviter aegrotat; levi motiuncula tentatus: to be poorly, leviter aegrotare; levi motiuncula tentari (Suet., Vesp. 24); leviter commotum esse (Cic.); leviter aegrum esse.