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