Synonyms of poorness

Noun


1. poverty, poorness, impoverishment, financial condition

usage: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

2. poorness, fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness

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

3. meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency

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

4. poorness, inferiority, low quality

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

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