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Poorness synonyms

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want
Something desired:
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  1. Something desired:
  2. A wish or desire for something; craving
  3. Pressing need; destitution:
need
Something required or wanted; a requisite:
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  1. Something required or wanted; a requisite:
  2. A condition of poverty or misfortune:
  3. A condition of poverty, or extreme want
destitution
The state of being destitute; esp., abject poverty
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  1. The state of being destitute; esp., abject poverty
  2. A deprivation or lack; a deficiency.
  3. Extreme want of resources or the means of subsistence; complete poverty.
Find another word for poorness. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for poorness, like: want, need, destitution, poverty and starvation.

Sentence Examples

  • Where the malnutrition is the effect of poorness in the quality of the blood, the results are of course more widespread.

  • In spite, however, of all mitigations the Franciscans have nearly always presented to the world an object lesson in evangelical poverty by the poorness and simplicity of their lives and surroundings.

  • The Spanish Roman and the Visigoth, so-called, of that epoch of poorness of spirit, accustomed as he was to compound with one master after another, saw nothing dishonourable in making such an arrangement.

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