poorness

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being poor
  2. (countable, uncountable) poverty

Synonyms

poverty
C1
indigence
exiguity
scantiness
pennilessness
meagerness
meagreness
leanness
paucity
impoverishment
pauperism
scantness
need
A1
badness
42k
trashiness
inadequacy
44k
penury
imperfectness
deprivation
20k
scarcity
36k
shortness
28k
sparseness
starvation
C2
stringency
thinness
lameness
insufficiency
Translations

pobreza
pobreza
pobresa

φτώχεια

pauvreté

Armseligkeit

povertà
Armut

mala qualitat

πτώχεια

maigreur

empobriment

عوز

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
poornes
In summary

From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.

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