poorness, n.
(poornesses)
(poornesses)
the quality of being poorly made or maintained
<noun.attribute>
poorness
sample sentences
"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
semantic pointers
hypernym
the quality of being meager
<noun.attribute>
exiguity leanness meagerness meagreness poorness scantiness scantness
sample sentences
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
less than adequate
<noun.attribute>
poorness
sample sentences
"the relative poorness of New England farmland"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7
impoverishment poorness poverty
lexical pointers
antonym