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adjective

Meagre, Meager adj.

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. "Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones."

Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of ample. (Narrower terms: exiguous) (Narrower terms: hardscrabble, marginal) (Narrower terms: measly, miserable, paltry) "Meager soil."

Synonyms: meagre, meagerly, scanty. "Of secular habits and meager religious belief." "His education had been but meager."

(Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

Less than a desirable amount; of items distributed from a larger supply.

Synonyms: scrimpy, skimpy, skimping.

Synonyms: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.

verb

Meagre, Meager v. t. To make lean. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Meager'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Meager" Quotes from Famous Books

... Telephone system: meager telephone service; principal switching center is Asuncion domestic: fair microwave radio relay network international: satellite ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... at all because now he was sure he was right. The natives had given him the animal for a purpose. Their own existence was meager, near the edge of extinction. They could not afford to keep something that wasn't useful. And this creature was useful. Tiny blue sparks crackled from the fur as it rubbed against him in the darkness. It was not whining. It rumbled and purred as ...

— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace

... J. nigra tree on the station farm that has consistently shown symptoms of the disease during the past eight years, and in 1950 only a few limbs are affected. On the basis of the admittedly meager information reported here, it can be stated that the black walnut varieties used in these experiments are more resistant to the bunch disease than are varieties and seedlings of heartnut and butternut. That this is generally true is also borne ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... Spanish rule. In this uprising a certain portion of the population, and indeed that which had the most valid claim to aboriginality, the so-called Negritos, were not involved. Their isolation, their lack of every sort of political, often indeed of village organization, also their meager numbers, render it conceivable that the greatest changes might go on among their neighbors without their taking such a practical view of them as to lead to their engaging in them. Thus it can be understood how they would take no interest in the ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... a single element is omitted that is the only difference, and in some cases the result is worse than where no plant food is supplied. It seems to hurt the plant worse to throw its food supply completely out of balance than to leave it with nothing except what it draws from the meager store in the seed planted. Of course all the pots were planted with the same kind of seed at the same time, and they were all watered uniformly ...

— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins

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