poorness
Plural: poornesses
Noun
- The state or quality of being poor; poverty.
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- less than adequate
- "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
- the quality of being meager; -George Eliot
- the quality of being poorly made or maintained
- "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
- The quality of being poor
- poverty
Examples
- The poorness of his tile rack led him to resign from the Words With Friends game early.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.
Synonyms
exiguity, impoverishment, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poverty, scantiness, scantness
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
poorness: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpoorness: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
poorness: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary