poorness

Other forms of poorness

plural

poornesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about poorness

What does poorness mean?

poorness means "the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in poorness?

poorness has 2 syllables: poor-ness. The stress falls on "poor".

What is another word for poorness?

Close synonyms include poverty, impoverishment, meagerness, meagreness, leanness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is poorness a common word?

poorness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.