poorness English

Meaning poorness meaning

What does poorness mean?

poorness

— noun the quality of being poorly made or maintained she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography

— noun less than adequate the relative poorness of New England farmland

— noun (= poverty) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

— noun (= exiguity) the quality of being meager an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes — George Eliot

Synonyms poorness synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as poorness?

poorness English » English

poverty

indigence

scantiness

pennilessness

meagreness

meagerness

leanness

exiguity

scantness

pauperism

paucity

impoverishment

trashiness

thinness

stringency

starvation

sparseness

shortness

scarcity

penury

need

lameness

insufficiency

inadequacy

imperfectness

deprivation

badness