noun
- The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
- synonyms: poverty, impoverishment
- Less than adequate.
- usage: "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
- synonyms: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
- The quality of being poorly made or maintained.
- usage: "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
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