'Poorness' definitions:
Definition of 'poorness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [syn: poverty, poorness, impoverishment] [ant: wealth, wealthiness]
noun
Less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
noun
The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
noun
The quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
Definition of 'Poorness'
From: GCIDE
- Poorness \Poor"ness\, n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Poorness'
- Poor,
- Poorly,
- Poorly off,
- The poor,
- Guardians of the poor,
- Poor Clares,
- Poor heart,
- Poor law,
- Poor rate,
- Poor soldier,
- Poor-will,
- poor box,
- poor boy,
- poor devil,
- poor fish,
- poor people,
- poor person,
- poor rates,
- poor speller,
- poor taste,
- standard and poor's,
- Land-poor,
- Little Sisters of the Poor,
- Poor man's treacle,
- Poor man's weatherglass,
- Poor-john,
- Poor-spirited,
- Poor-spiritedness,
- Poor-willie,
- Whip-poor-will,
- poor man's orchid,
- poor man's pulse,
- poor white trash,
- rich vs poor,
- standard and poor's index