Meaning of POORNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'pûunes
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | exiguity, impoverishment, meagerness, meagreness, poverty, scantiness, scantness |
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| | Antonyms: | | wealth, wealthiness | | |
| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | | \Poor"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
the adjective). --Bacon.
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