Poorness: alternatives and connections

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than tempera…

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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; u…

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The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

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The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

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The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

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The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

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The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.

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The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

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The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

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The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

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The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

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The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

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The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

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Alt. of Meagrely

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Alt. of Meagrely

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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

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The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

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The condition or quality of being lean.

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Alt. of Meagreness

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The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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Quality or condition of being scanty.

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The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

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