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poorness |
2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: poorness n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {impoverishment}] [ant: {wealth}] 2: less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland" 3: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness}, {meagreness}, {scantiness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}] 4: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
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