poorness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
    poverty; impoverishment.
  2. noun less than adequate
    • the relative poorness of New England farmland
  3. noun the quality of being meager
    scantiness; leanness; exiguity; meagreness; scantness; meagerness.
    • an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
  4. noun the quality of being poorly made or maintained
    • she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography

WordNet

Poor"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). Bacon.

Webster 1913