meager
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
having little flesh; lean; thin: a body meager with hunger.
Origin of meager
1- Also especially British, mea·gre .
synonym study For meager
Other words for meager
Other words from meager
- mea·ger·ly, adverb
- mea·ger·ness, noun
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How to use meager in a sentence
It was a dwelling place of unusual pretentiousness for that land of "Do-without," where inexorable meagerness is the rule of life.
A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville BuckAtilio was giving vent to his melancholy by lamenting the meagerness of the afternoon tea.
The Enemies of Women | Vicente Blasco IbezThe meagerness and triteness of the music and piece astonished me.
Records of a Girlhood | Frances Ann KembleWe recognize its meagerness; we see in it the timidity of politicians; but beyond and through all, we see a promise of the future.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) | Ida Husted HarperThe brevity and meagerness of these official reports often leave one puzzled as to their meaning.
The Opium Monopoly | Ellen Newbold La Motte
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