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Definition of Poorness
1. Noun. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
Exact synonyms: Impoverishment, Poverty
Generic synonyms: Financial Condition
Specialized synonyms: Deprivation, Neediness, Privation, Want, Destitution, Indigence, Need, Pauperism, Pauperization, Penury, Impecuniousness, Pennilessness, Penuriousness
Derivative terms: Poor, Poor
Antonyms: Wealth
Generic synonyms: Financial Condition
Specialized synonyms: Deprivation, Neediness, Privation, Want, Destitution, Indigence, Need, Pauperism, Pauperization, Penury, Impecuniousness, Pennilessness, Penuriousness
Derivative terms: Poor, Poor
Antonyms: Wealth
2. Noun. Less than adequate. "The relative poorness of New England farmland"
3. Noun. The quality of being meager. "An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
Exact synonyms: Exiguity, Leanness, Meagerness, Meagreness, Scantiness, Scantness
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Wateriness, Abstemiousness, Spareness, Sparseness, Sparsity, Thinness
Derivative terms: Exiguous, Lean, Lean, Lean, Meager, Meagre, Poor, Poor, Scanty, Scant
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Wateriness, Abstemiousness, Spareness, Sparseness, Sparsity, Thinness
Derivative terms: Exiguous, Lean, Lean, Lean, Meager, Meagre, Poor, Poor, Scanty, Scant
4. Noun. The quality of being poorly made or maintained. "She was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
Definition of Poorness
1. n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Definition of Poorness
1. the state of being poor [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poorness
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