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Poorness

Poorness Meaning & Definition
Poorness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Poorness?

[n] the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
[n] the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
[n] less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Synonyms | Synonyms for Poorness: exiguity | impoverishment | meagerness | meagreness | poverty | scantiness | scantness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Poorness:

See Also | aridity | barrenness | beggary | deficiency | deprivation | destitution | economic condition | financial condition | fruitlessness | impecuniousness | inadequacy | indigence | inferiority | insufficiency | low quality | need | pauperism | pauperization | pennilessness | penuriousness | penury | privation | spareness | sparseness | sparsity | want

Poorness In Webster's Dictionary

\Poor"ness\, n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). --Bacon.

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