| poorness | (n) less than adequate, Example: the relative poorness of New England farmland |
| poorness | (n) the quality of being poorly made or maintained, Example: she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography |
| meagerness | (n) the quality of being meager; -George Eliot, Syn. meagreness, scantness, poorness, exiguity, leanness, scantiness, Example: an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes |
| poverty | (n) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions, Syn. poorness, impoverishment, Ant. wealth |
