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Definition of Poorness
1. Noun. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
Generic synonyms: Financial Condition
Specialized synonyms: Deprivation, Neediness, Privation, Want, Destitution, Indigence, Need, Pauperism, Pauperization, Penury, Impecuniousness, Pennilessness, Penuriousness
Derivative terms: Poor, Poor
Antonyms: Wealth
2. Noun. Less than adequate. "The relative poorness of New England farmland"
3. Noun. The quality of being meager. "An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Wateriness, Abstemiousness, Spareness, Sparseness, Sparsity, Thinness
Derivative terms: Exiguous, Lean, Lean, Lean, Meager, Meagre, Poor, Poor, Scanty, Scant
4. Noun. The quality of being poorly made or maintained. "She was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
Definition of Poorness
1. n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Definition of Poorness
1. Noun. The quality of being poor ¹
2. Noun. poverty ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Poorness
1. the state of being poor [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poorness
Literary usage of Poorness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of meat inspection by Robert Ostertag, Earley Vernon Wilcox (1907)
"Moreover, in the case of food animals, we do not have to deal •with the highest
degree of poorness. A regard for the utilization of the meat prevents the ..."
2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1900)
"... number— On the lapse of time, as inferred from the rate of denudation and of
deposition—On the lapse of time as estimated by years —On the poorness of ..."
3. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Performed in Her Majesty's Ship by Edward Belcher, Richard Brinsley Hinds, Great Britain Admiralty (1872)
"... York by Ni^ht—Advertisements—poorness of Places of Business—Unshuttered
Stores—Gardens—Jim Fisk—Opera House—Booth's Theatre—Wood's Museum— Newspapers. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"I. Leanness, thinness, spareness. 7. Degree, indefinite quantity. 2. poorness,
barrenness, sterility. 3. Scantiness, barrenness, smallness. Meal, «. ..."
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