Noun: poorness por-nus or pûr-nus
- The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
"The family's poorness was evident in their sparse living conditions";
- poverty, impoverishment, immiserisation [Brit], immiseration, immiserization
- The quality of being poorly made or maintained
"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
- The quality of being meagre
"The poorness of the harvest worried the farmers";
- meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, skimpiness
- Less than adequate
"the relative poorness of New England farmland"
Type of: aridity, barrenness, deficiency, financial condition, fruitlessness, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, low quality
Encyclopedia: Poorness