poorness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: poorness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for poorness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poorness n the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions Synonym(s): poverty, poorness, impoverishment Antonym(s): wealth, wealthiness less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland" the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot Synonym(s): meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poorness \Poor"ness\, n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). --Bacon.