 poorness |
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| 1. | [ noun ] the quality of being meager | |
| Synonyms: | meagreness scantiness scantness exiguity meagerness | |
| Examples: | "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot |
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| Related terms: | insufficiency abstemiousness sparseness | |
| 2. | [ noun ] less than adequate | |
| Examples: | "the relative poorness of New England farmland" |
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| Related terms: | fruitlessness | |
| 3. | [ noun ] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | |
| Synonyms: | poverty impoverishment | |
| Related terms: | wealth financial_condition privation indigence impecuniousness destitution | |
| 4. | [ noun ] the quality of being poorly made or maintained | |
| Examples: | "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography" |
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| Related terms: | inferiority | |
| Similar spelling: |
porringer pouring |
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