poorness
Meanings
Plural: poornesses
Noun
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- less than adequate
- "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
- the quality of being meager; -George Eliot
- the quality of being poorly made or maintained
- "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
- The quality of being poor
- poverty
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.
Synonyms
exiguity, impoverishment, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poverty, scantiness, scantness
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
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