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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.

noun

Meagre n. (Written also maigre) (Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.

verb

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

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Etymology of 'Meagre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Meagre" Quotes from Famous Books

... desire to provide for their own wants in an honest way shall be officially inculcated. There is a Government Reformatory School, and industrial and family schools for both girls and boys are scattered over the islands. The supply of literature in the vernacular is meagre, and few of the natives have any intelligent ...

— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird

... satisfied with the very meagre information he had received, and directly he got a favourable opportunity, he besieged Mrs. Mittens, the old housekeeper, with questions concerning the new relation who was coming to make her home with them, and of the Uncle Frank whose name he had ...

— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... the poet had always been one of his idols—the man of all others he wanted most to know. Poe's former room opening into the corridor had invariably attracted him. He had frequently looked about its bare walls wondering how so great an inspiration could have started from such meagre surroundings. He had, too, with the romantic imagination of a boy, pictured to himself the kind of man he was, his looks, voice, and manner, and though he had never seen the poet in the flesh, somehow the tones of Richard's voice recalled ...

— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith

... and exercise. The vice of the place, as of all continental scenes of amusement, is gambling. Both sexes, and all ages, are busy at all times in the mysteries of the gaming-table. Dollars and florins are constantly changing hands. The bloated German, the meagre Frenchman, the sallow Russian, and even the placid Dutchman, hurry to those tables, and continue at them from morning till night, and often from night till morning. The fair sex are often as eager and miserable as the rest. It is impossible to doubt that this passion is fatal ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

... of the fell. Presently I saw them ascending once more some rising ground farther on. My acquaintance had thrown his arm round his elderly friend, either from affection or from a desire to aid him up the steep incline. The square burly figure and its shrivelled, meagre companion stood out against the sky-line, and turning their faces, they looked back at me. At the sight, I slammed the door, lest they should be encouraged to return. But when I peeped from the window some minutes afterward, I perceived that they ...

— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle

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