poorness   (TTS Sound)

The noun poorness has 4 senses

• poverty, poorness, impoverishment -- (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)


• poorness -- (less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland")


• 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)


• poorness -- (the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography")