Noun

• 1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

• 2. less than adequate;

  "the relative poorness of New England farmland"

• 3. the quality of being meager;

  "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

• 4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained;

  "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"