Definition of Poorness

Noun: poorness  por-nus or pûr-nus

  1. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
    - poverty, impoverishment, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, immiseration
     
  2. Less than adequate
    "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
     
  3. The quality of being meagre
    - meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
     
  4. The quality of being poorly made or maintained
    "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"

See also:
poormouths
poornesses

Anagrams containing the word poorness

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