Synonyms for poorness
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Meanness
meanness, leanness, scantiness, meagerness US, meagreness UK, scantness, exiguity
2. Impoverishment — poverty
Definitions
- n. 1
poverty
- n. 2
The quality of being poor
Forms
- Plural
- poornesses → meannesses, scantinesses, meagernesses, exiguities…
Example sentences
- impoverishment Monolingualism means impoverishment.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| poorness | falling | |
| leanness | steady | |
| scantiness | falling | |
| scantness | steady | |
| exiguity | rising | |
| impoverishment | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- poverty3
- 8 letters
- meanness2, leanness, exiguity
- 9 letters
- scantness
- 10 letters
- scantiness3, meagerness, meagreness
- 14 letters
- impoverishment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (poverty3 = 3 syllables).