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meager
[mee-ger]
adjective
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.
Synonyms: , ,
Other 51Թ Forms
- meagerly adverb
- meagerness noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of meager1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Many of the fighters are former military personnel with meager or no pensions and little training for any activity other than war.
With the meager snowmelt, the country’s two largest reservoirs will probably decline further this year, and could approach critically low levels that require additional cuts in water deliveries in the next couple of years.
My meager hope for the Season 3 opener?
He recalls seeing inmates being tortured and guards hauling dead bodies from cells while he lived on meager portions of noodles and beans.
Frankie needs the money: She’s a young widow eking out a meager existence without custody of her young daughter and with an erratic condition that causes her to lose blocks of time.
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