poorness

Other forms: poornesses

Definitions of poorness

1. noun

   the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
   synonyms: impoverishment, poverty

   types:

   deprivation, neediness, privation, want

   a state of extreme poverty

   destitution

   a state without friends or money or prospects

   indigence, need, pauperisation, pauperism, pauperization, penury

   a state of extreme poverty or destitution

   impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness

   a state of lacking money

   beggary, mendicancy, mendicity

   the state of being a beggar or mendicant

   type of:

   financial condition

   the condition of (corporate or personal) finances
2. noun

   less than adequate
   “the relative poorness of New England farmland”

   type of:

   aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness

   the quality of yielding nothing of value
3. noun

   the quality of being poorly made or maintained
   “she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography”

   type of:

   inferiority, low quality

   an inferior quality
4. noun

   the quality of being meager
   synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness

   types:

   wateriness

   meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)

   abstemiousness

   restricted to bare necessities

   spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness

   the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

   type of:

   deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

   lack of an adequate quantity or number