the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

[ Syn: poverty , impoverishment ]

less than adequate; the relative poorness of New England farmland'

the quality of being meager; an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes-George Eliot

[ Syn: meagerness , meagreness , leanness , scantiness , scantness , exiguity ]

the quality of being poorly made or maintained; she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography'