Definition for Poorness:

• Poverty; the quality or state of being poor.

Synonyms for Poorness:

• n.

  •
  • luxury.
  •adversity (noun)
  • bad luck,
  • torment,
  • disaster,
  • bane,
  • hard times,
  • agony,
  • dolor,
  • destitution,
  • difficulty,
  • rainy day,
  • trouble,
  • misfortune,
  • casualty,
  • hardship,
  • adversity,
  • hard luck,
  • woe,
  • tragedy,
  • affliction,
  • infliction,
  • mishap,
  • misery,
  • grief,
  • calamity,
  • curse,
  • peril,
  • catastrophe,
  • blight,
  • ordeal,
  • misadventure,
  • trial,
  • burden,
  • distress,
  • tribulation,
  • contretemps.
  •attribute (noun)
  • poorness.
  •beggary (noun)
  • mendicancy,
  • Mendicity.
  •exiguity (noun)
  • exiguity.
  •griminess (noun)
  • un cleannesses,
  • un-cleanness,
  • un cleanness,
  • un-cleannesses,
  • un cleanlinesses,
  • uncleanlinesses,
  • un cleanliness,
  • un-cleanliness,
  • un-cleanlinesses.
  •poorness (noun)
  • meagerness,
  • impoverishment,
  • scantness,
  • meagreness.
  •poverty (noun)
  • homelessness,
  • famine,
  • Beggarliness,
  • embarrassment,
  • paucity,
  • bankruptcy,
  • insolvency,
  • indigence,
  • pennilessness,
  • tenuity,
  • insufficiency,
  • dearth,
  • privation,
  • asceticism,
  • pauperism,
  • lack.
  •squalor (noun)
  • seediness,
  • grunginess.
  •want (noun)
  • need,
  • starvation,
  • impecuniousness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • degeneracy,
  • griminess,
  • grubbiness,
  • needs,
  • penury,
  • poverty,
  • scantiness,
  • squalor,
  • uncleanliness,
  • want,
  • skimpiness,
  • exiguousness.

Antonyms for Poorness:

• n.

  • want
    wealth.
  • Other antonyms:
    luxury, richness, opulence, affluence, wealthiness, prosperity.

Poorness Sentence Examples:

• He turned away for it - that is for the poorness, which, lingering in the air, had almost a vulgar platitude; and when he presently again wheeled about she had fallen off as for quitting him, only with a pause, once more, for a last look.

• Hence the hegira of Robert, and he would dilate on the poorness of his beginnings, how he saved, by little and little, from his sorry wage of City clerk, and how he and a fellow clerk, 'who had come into a hundred pounds, ' saw an opening in the coal trade - and filled it.

Hyponym for Poorness:

• n.

  • attribute
    barrenness, inferiority, fruitlessness, aridity, low quality.