poorness

Nouns

  • (n) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions impoverishment, poverty,
  • (n) less than adequate
    • the relative poorness of New England farmland
  • (n) the quality of being meager
    • "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
    exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness,
  • (n) the quality of being poorly made or maintained
    • she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography

Synonyms

impoverishment poverty exiguity leanness meagerness meagreness scantiness scantness

Antonyms

wealth wealthiness

Words of close approximity