Hyphenation of poorness

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word poorness? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

poor-ness

Definitions of poorness:

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

Synonyms of poorness:

noun	poverty, impoverishment, financial condition, economic condition
noun	fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
noun	meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
noun	inferiority, low quality

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.