| NOUN | state | poorness, poverty, impoverishment | the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
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| attribute | poorness | less than adequate | |
| attribute | poorness, meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity | the quality of being meager | |
| attribute | poorness | the quality of being poorly made or maintained |
| Meaning | The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. | |
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| Synonyms | poverty, impoverishment | |
| Narrower | destitution | A state without friends or money or prospects |
| impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness | A state of lacking money | |
| indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization | A state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution | |
| privation, want, deprivation, neediness | A state of extreme / extreme poverty | |
| Broader | financial condition | The condition of (corporate or personal) finances |
| Opposite | wealth, wealthiness | The state of being rich and affluent |
| Spanish | desabrigo, empobrecimiento, inopia, miseria, pauperismo, pobretería, pobreza | |
| Catalan | empobriment, fretura, misèria, pobre, pobresa | |
| Adjectives | poor | having little money or few possessions |
| poor | characterized by or indicating poverty | |
| Meaning | less than adequate. | |
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| Example | "the relative poorness of New England farmland" | |
| Broader | fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness | The quality of yielding nothing of value |
| Spanish | indigencia, pobreza | |
| Catalan | indigencia, indigència, pobresa | |
| Adjectives | poor | lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances |
| Meaning | The quality of being meager. | |
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| Synonyms | meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity | |
| Narrower | abstemiousness | restricted to bare necessities |
| sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness | The property of being scanty or scattered | |
| wateriness | meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) | |
| Broader | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
| Spanish | escasez, exigüidad, poquedad | |
| Adjectives | poor | lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances |
| poor | not sufficient to meet / meet a need | |
| Meaning | The quality of being poorly made or maintained. | |
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| Example | "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography" | |
| Broader | inferiority, low quality | An inferior quality |
| Spanish | mala calidad, pobreza | |
| Catalan | mala qualitat, pobresa | |
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