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Poorness

noun

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty. Antonym: wealth.

Less than adequate.

The quality of being meager. Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness.

The quality of being poorly made or maintained.

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"Poorness" Quotes from Famous Books

... number of catches; but the difficulty the writer has had in making Vest hickories on pecan root live, leads him to question as to whether another stock might not prove better. Another thing disappointing so far is in the seeming poorness of the mockernut as a stock. Over quite a large section of the United States the mockernut is the prevailing hickory, and in that section the mockernut will be most generally available for top working; moreover it ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting • Various

... and pecans do their best. It was also ascertained that while Mr. Hales senior was living the trees had received an application of manure every year. Since his death they have not. This, in connection with the poorness of the soil for hickories, seems possible may be the reason for the cessation of bearing. It also seems likely that bitternut root is not a good stock for the shagbark. I have on my place two grafted Cedarapids trees, each of which when received was four years ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various

... made his way past the burial ground and on towards the cliff there crept over him a feeling as to the girl very different from that reverential love which he had bestowed upon her when she was still pure. He remembered the poorness of her raiment, the meekness of her language, the small range of her ideas. The sweet soft coaxing loving smile, which had once been so dear to him, was infantine and ignoble. She was a plaything for an idle hour, not a woman ...

— An Eye for an Eye • Anthony Trollope

... any good come to a gentleman from those accursed books," said the Nevile,—"fit only for monks and shavelings. But still, for your father's sake, though I am ashamed of the poorness of ...

— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... our flies, and made quick casts here and there, as we went along. It was fishing on the wing. And when we pitched our tents in a hurry at nightfall on the low shore of Lac Sale, among the bushes where firewood was scarce and there were no sapins for the beds, we were comforted for the poorness of the camp-ground by the ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

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