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poorness

poorness noun: the quality of being poor.

Noun

poorness (countable and uncountable, plural poornesses)

  1. The quality of being poor
  2. poverty

poorness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

poorness in Tamil

சிலுவல்

poorness in Malayalam

ദരിദ്രാവസ്ഥ, ദാരിദ്ര്യം

Forms of poorness

pluralpoornesses

Origin of poorness

From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.

Words formed from poorness

Questions about poorness

What does poorness mean?
Poorness means the quality of being poor.
What is poorness in Tamil?
Poorness in Tamil is சிலுவல். See Poorness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is poorness?
Poorness is a noun.
What is the plural of poorness?
The plural of poorness is poornesses.

Words near poorness in the dictionary

  1. poormasters
  2. poormouth
  3. poormouthed
  4. poormouthing
  5. poormouths
  6. poorness
  7. poorness is a state of mind
  8. poornesses
  9. pooron
  10. poors
  11. poorsies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poorness (page history and authors); poorness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poorness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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