pond, n. lake ([small]); lagoon.

ponder, v. [meditate], [reflect], [ruminate], [think], [muse].

ponderous, a. [massive], [heavy], [cumbersome]; [dull], spiritless momentous, [important].

pooh-pooh, v. (Colloq.) [deride].

poor, a. indigent, impecunious, [needy], poverty -stricken, [straitened], necessitous, [penniless], eleemosynary; emaciated, [skinny], [lean], [spare], [meager], bony, [gaunt], [thin], [haggard], [scrawny], angular, [peaked], [rawboned], pinched; [inferior], [mean], [shabby], [seedy], [tacky], [worthless]; [barren], [sterile], effete infecund, inarable, [exhausted], infertile; [miserable], [wretched], [faulty], defective; [despicable], [contemptible], [abject], [sordid], [sorry]; [unfavorable], inauspicious, unpropitious.

poorhouse, n. almshouse, infirmary.

pope, n. bishop of Rome, pontiff, Pontifex Maximus. Associated words: papal, papacy, paparchy, popish, [see], popedom, popery, ablegate, nuncio, [legate], Vatican, pontifical.

poppinjay, n. [dandy], [coxcomb]. See fop.

populace, n. [commonalty], proletariat, [rabble].

popular, a. approved.