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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun poorness has 4 senses

• poorness(n = noun.state) impoverishment, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions; Array
is a kind of financial condition
has particulars: deprivation, neediness, privation, want, destitution, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness
Derived forms adjective poor₂, adjective poor₃

• poorness(n = noun.attribute) Array - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
is a kind of aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness
Derived form adjective poor₄

• poorness(n = noun.attribute) exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
is a kind of deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
has particulars: wateriness, abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness
Derived forms adjective poor₄, adjective poor₅

• poorness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
is a kind of inferiority, low quality
Derived form adjective poor₆

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poorness

Insufficiency

N insufficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompetence, deficiency, imperfection, shortcoming, paucity, stint, scantiness, none to spare, bare subsistence, scarcity, dearth, want, need, lack, poverty, exigency, inanition, starvation, famine, drought, dole, mite, pittance, short allowance, short commons, half rations, banyan day, emptiness, poorness, depletion, vacancy, flaccidity, ebb tide, low water, a beggarly account of empty boxes, indigence, insolvency, drain of resources, impoverish, stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake, Adj, insufficient, inadequate, too little, not enough, unequal to, incompetent, weighed in the balance and found wanting, perfunctory, deficient, wanting imperfect, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill- stored, ill-off, slack, at a low ebb, empty, vacant, bare, short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of, denuded of, dry, drained, unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished, unreplenished, unfed, unstored, untreasured, empty-handed, meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted, starved, starving, halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished, jejune, scant, scarce, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price, scurvy, stingy, at the end of one's tether, without resources, in want, in debt, insufficiently, in default of, for want of, failing, semper avarus eget.

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