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"