/ Thesaurus / P Synonyms of poorness Find synonyms for: Noun1. poverty, poorness, impoverishment, financial conditionusage: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions2. poorness, fruitlessness, aridity, barrennessusage: less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"3. meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiencyusage: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot4. poorness, inferiority, low qualityusage: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: inutiae Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language