English noun: poorness |
1. | poorness (state) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
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| Synonyms | impoverishment, poverty |
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| Broader (hypernym) | financial condition |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | deprivation, destitution, impecuniousness, indigence, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, want |
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| Antonyms | wealth, wealthiness |
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2. | poorness (attribute) less than adequate |
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| Samples | The relative poorness of New England farmland.
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| Broader (hypernym) | aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness |
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3. | poorness (attribute) the quality of being meager |
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| Samples | An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes.
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| Synonyms | exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness, wateriness |
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4. | poorness (attribute) the quality of being poorly made or maintained |
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| Samples | She was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography.
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| Broader (hypernym) | inferiority, low quality |
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