Dictionary

1. (

• poverty ,
• poorness ,
• impoverishment

) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions ;

2. (

• poorness ,

) less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland" ;

3. (

• meagerness ,
• meagreness ,
• leanness ,
• poorness ,
• scantiness ,
• scantness ,
• exiguity

) the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot ;

4. (

• poorness ,

) the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography" ;