Poorness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poorness \Poor"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
     the adjective). --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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"