Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Poorness \Poor"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
the adjective). --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poorness
n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no
material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {poorness},
{impoverishment}] [ant: {wealth}, {wealthiness}]
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}, {leanness}, {poorness},
{scantiness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}]
4: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was
unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย