poorness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

poverty impoverishment leanness scantiness exiguity meagreness meagerness scantness need lack blight meanness want necessity famine

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Antonyms

excellency diamond excess abundance prosperity luxury

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Hypernyms

deficiency inferiority insufficiency inadequacy aridity barrenness

Hyponyms

need want privation destitution indigence neediness

Examples

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures. John Ruskin

The greatest poorness is the lack of brains. Arabic Proverb

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes Source: Internet

she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography Source: Internet

the relative poorness of New England farmland Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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