POORNESS
Scrabble letter values: P3O1O1R1N1E1S1S1 = 10
Definition
- noun the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. — synonyms: poverty, impoverishment
- noun less than adequate.
- noun the quality of being meager. — synonyms: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
- noun the quality of being poorly made or maintained.
Examples
- “the relative poorness of New England farmland”
- “an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes-George Eliot”
- “she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography”