poorness

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noun

1. less than adequate
- the relative poorness of New England farmland
• Derivationally related forms:
poor
• Hypernyms:
fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
2. the quality of being meager
- "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
• Syn:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
• Derivationally related forms:
exiguous (for: exiguity), scant (for: scantness), scanty (for: scantiness), poor, lean (for: leanness), meagre (for: meagreness), meager (for: meagerness)
• Hypernyms:
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
• Hyponyms:
wateriness, abstemiousness, sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness
3. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
• Syn:
poverty, impoverishment
• Ant:
wealth (for: poverty)
• Derivationally related forms:
poor
• Hypernyms:
financial condition
• Hyponyms:
privation, want, deprivation, neediness, destitution,
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization, impecuniousness,
pennilessness, penuriousness
4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained
- she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography
• Derivationally related forms:
poor
• Hypernyms:
inferiority, low quality

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, poverty, impoverishment
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  wealth, wealthiness