Poorness

Definition: Poorness

Poorness

Noun

1. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.

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.

4. The quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography".

Date "poorness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Synonyms: Poorness

Synonyms: exiguity (n), impoverishment (n), meagerness (n), meagreness (n), poverty (n), scantiness (n), scantness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: wealth (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insufficiency	Emptiness, poorness; Adjective:; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes "; indigence; insolvency; (nonpayment).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Language		Translations for "poorness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		varfëri (beggary, hardship, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, poverty, squalor, want), rëndomësi (platitude, vapidity, vulgarism, vulgarity), mediokritet (mediocrity). (various references)

Arabic		‏فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poverty, ruin, want), ‏كفاف (cut it out), ‏عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, pauperism, poverty, privation, want), ‏عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏الحاجة, ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), ‏دون المتوسط. (various references)

Bulgarian		слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, failing, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), незадоволителност, лошо качество, бедност (destitution, necessity, pauperism, poverty, want), беднотия (beggary, indigene). (various references)

Czech		chudoba (penury, poverty). (various references)

Finnish		kehnous (badness), huonous (badness, inferior quality), hataruus (flimsiness, looseness, vagueness). (various references)

French		pauvreté (poverty), mauvaise qualité (poor quality), médiocrité. (various references)

German		spärlichkeit (meagerness, scantiness, skimpiness, sparseness), schwäche (brittleness, deficiency, dimness, dullness, enervation, failing, faintness, feebleness, foible, fondness, frailty, impotence, infirmity, lameness, languor, lightness, lowness, partiality, penchant, proclivity, slackness, slenderness, slightness, softness, unsoundness, weakness), schäbigkeit (dilapidation, dinginess, dowdiness, manginess, meanness, measliness, paltriness, seediness, shabbiness, shoddiness, stinginess, threadbareness), minderwertigkeit (badness, baseness, cheapness, inferiority, lowness, poor quality, shoddiness, unwholesomeness), mangelhaftigkeit (defectiveness, deficiency, faultiness, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency), magerkeit (emaciation, leanness, low fat level, meagerness, scragginess, skinniness, sliminess, spareness, thinness), dürftigkeit (flimsiness, indigence, meagerness, miserableness, scantiness, slenderness, sparseness, wretchedness), armmut, ärmlichkeit (humbleness, meagerness, shabbiness). (various references)

Greek		πτώχεια (poverty), φτώχεια (distress, poverty). (various references)

Hebrew		עו� י (indigence, meanness, misery, pauperism, penury, poverty, privation, want), �"לות (indigence, leanness, meanness, poverty). (various references)

Hungarian		szegénység (beggary, destitution, gutter, indigence, necessity, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, poverty), silányság (cheapness, paltriness, poverty). (various references)

Italian		povert� (destitution, need, poverty, shabbiness). (various references)

Manx		mellid (backwardness, decrepitude, deliberateness, deliberation, dullness, faultiness, feebleness, flimsiness, slowness). (various references)

Pig Latin		oornesspay

Portuguese		pobreza (bareness, destitution, indigene, narrow goods, penurity, penury, poverty, sorriness), inferioridade (infernal, meanness), indisposto (ailing, cross, ill, ill-affected, indisposed, livery, off color, off colour, uncomfortable, unwell), indigência (destitution, indigence, misery, penury, peon, poverty rate), improdutividade, esterilidade (barrenness, infest, sterility), carência (absence, deficiency, failure, famine, lack, Miss, need, negation, penurity, penury, scarcity, shortage, stringency, want). (various references)

Romanian		mizerie (atrocity, beggary, depth, distress, indigence, misery, pauperism, poverty, squalidity, squalor, troubles, want), condiţie proastã, calitate inferioarã (coarseness, poor quality). (various references)

Russian		бедность (indigence, lean purse, light purse, misery, penury, poverty, slender purse, tenuity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slabost (faintness, frailty, infirmity, malaise, remoteness, tenuity, weakness), siromaštvo (beggary, deprivation, destitution, indigence, pauperism, poverty), oskudnost (exiguity, penurity, scantiness), jalovost (barrenness, infertility). (various references)

Spanish		pobreza (indigence, neediness, penury, poverty, shabbiness, want), mala calidad (badness, poor quality). (various references)

Swedish		magerhet, fattigdom (destitution, indigence, necessity, pauperism, penury, poverty). (various references)

Turkish		yoksulluk (bareness, calamity, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poverty, privation), yetersizlik (deficiency, disability, disablement, flimsiness, handicap, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, inefficacy, insufficiency, littleness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, slenderness, slimness, spareness), verimsizlik (inefficiency, infertility, leanness, sterility, unproductiveness), fakirlik (beggary, indigence, nudity, pauperism, poverty, want). (various references)

Ukrainian		скудність, бідність (bareness, humility, meanness, misery, necessity, need, penury, poverty, shabbiness, tenuity, underprivilege). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự t�"i, sự nghèo n� n sự xo� ng, sự kém. (various references)

Welsh		saldra (illness), gwaelder (vileness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "poorness": poornesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Poorness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: porenes, Poucnessh, proofness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "poorness" (pronounced 'Poor"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: snoopers.
	Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: noosers, operons, persons, snooper, sooners, sponsor.
	-2 letters: nooser, nooses, operon, person, pornos, porose, posers, proses, prosos, rooses, senors, sensor, snoops, snores, sooner, sopors, spoons, spoors, spores.
	-3 letters: noose, noses, opens, peons, pesos, pones, poons, pores, porno, porns, poser, poses, posse, press, prone, prose, proso, pross, repos, roose, ropes, roses, senor, snoop, snore, sones.
	Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: poisoners, prognoses, sponsored.
	+2 letters: endospores, nonpersons, nonprossed, nonprosses, noospheres, oppression, ponderosas, poornesses, porousness, postponers, procession, profession, responsory, spoonerism, stonecrops.
	+3 letters: aponeuroses, aponeurosis, compression, coprisoners, corresponds, cosponsored, desorptions, houseperson, ionospheres, mesonephros, neurosporas, nonresponse, operoseness, oppressions, personators, personhoods, portionless, processions, professions, progression, repositions, resorptions, responsions, snapshooter, splendorous, spoonerisms, sporogenous, sporogonies, sportswomen.
	+4 letters: anisotropies, compensators, compressions, coprocessing, counterposes, dessertspoon, gossipmonger, housepersons, monodisperse, necropolises, nephrostomes, noncomposers, nonresponses, overresponds, ozonospheres, personations, porousnesses, preconscious, prepositions, processional, processioned, professional, profoundness, progestogens, progressions, prosecutions, provisioners, repossession, reprovisions, responsories, rhinoscopies, scolopendras, snapshooters, sonographers, sonographies, spinsterhood, spokesperson, sporogeneses, sporogenesis, synchroscope, trypanosomes, unprosperous, uprootedness, vaporousness.
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