| Definition of 'poorness' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) poverty, poorness, impoverishment
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
2. (noun) poorness
less than adequate
"the relative poorness of New England farmland"
3. (noun) meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
the quality of being meager
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
4. (noun) poorness
the quality of being poorly made or maintained
"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
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| Definition of 'poorness' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) poorness
the quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective)
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Sense: deserving pity
Poor fellow!
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 Afrikaans: armheid |
 Arabic: بُؤْس ، فَقْر |
 Bulgarian: бедност |
 Brazilian: pobreza |
 Czech: chudoba |
 German: die Armut |
 Danish: fattigdom |
 Greek: φτώχεια |
 Spanish: pobreza |
 Estonian: vaesus |
 Farsi: فقر؛ بدی |
 Finnish: kehnous |
 French: pauvreté |
 Hebrew: עוֹנִי |
 Hindi: निकृष्टता, अपकृष्टता, विग |
 Croatian: oskudica, siromaština |
 Hungarian: szegény(es)ség |
 Indonesian: kemiskinan |
 Icelandic: fátækt |
 Italian: povertà |
 Japanese: 貧しさ |
 Korean: 졸렬, 결핍 |
 Lithuanian: skurdumas |
 Latvian: nabadzība; trūcīgums; nep |
 Malay: kemiskinan |
 Dutch: slechte kwaliteit |
 Norwegian: fattigdom |
 Polish: bieda |
 Persian: فقر؛ بدی |
 Pashto: فقر |
 Portuguese: pobreza |
 Romanian: sărăcie |
 Russian: бедность; неудовлетворите |
 Slovak: chudoba |
 Slovenian: revščina |
 Serbian: siromaštvo |
 Swedish: dålig beskaffenhet |
 Thai: ความยากจน |
 Turkish: yoksulluk |
 Taiwanese: 貧窮 |
 Ukrainian: бідність; убогість |
 Urdu: غربت |
 Vietnamese: tình trạng thiếu thốn |
 Chinese: 贫穷 |
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