poorness

  • 91pennilessness — penɪlɪsnɪs n. poorness, poverty, pauperism, impoverishment; lack of everything, destitution, homelessness …

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  • 92poor — adjective 1》 lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal. 2》 of a low or inferior standard or quality.     ↘(poor in) lacking in. 3》 deserving of pity or sympathy. Phrases the poor man s an inferior or cheaper… …

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  • 93degeneracy — n. 1. Deterioration, debasement, abasement, depravation, degeneration, degenerateness, declension, caducity, degradation, decline, decrease, falling off, growing worse. 2. Inferiority, meanness, poorness, low estate or state …

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  • 94meagreness — n. 1. Leanness, thinness, spareness. 2. Poorness, barrenness, sterility. 3. Scantiness, barrenness, smallness …

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  • 95meanness — n. 1. Humbleness, lowness. 2. Smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness, rudeness. 3. Abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness. 4. Illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness,… …

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  • 96poverty — n. 1. Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances. 2. Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism. 3. Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness. 4. Paucity …

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  • 97thinness — n. 1. Slenderness, slimness, meagreness, leanness, gauntness, emaciation, lankness. 2. Meagreness, poorness, slenderness. 3. Tenuity, fineness, slenderness, delicacy, exiguity. 4. Tenuity, rareness. 5. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtilty,… …

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  • 98poor — adjective 1 NO MONEY having very little money and not many possessions: Her family were so poor they couldn t afford to buy her new clothes. | Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. | a poor neighborhood 2 the poor people who are… …

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  • 99poverty — noun 1 (U) the situation or experience of being poor: dire/abject/grinding poverty (=very bad poverty): Thousands of children live in dire poverty. 2 the poverty line/level the income below which a person or a family is officially considered to… …

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  • 100poverty — noun 1) abject poverty Syn: penury, destitution, pauperism, pauperdom, beggary, indigence, pennilessness, impoverishment, neediness, need, hardship, impecuniousness Ant: wealth 2) …

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