Poorness \Poor"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
the adjective). --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
poorness
n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no
material possessions [syn: poverty, impoverishment]
[ant: wealth]
2: less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England
farmland"
3: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness,
meagreness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
4: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was
unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
WordNet (r) 2.0
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