MEAGER

meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy

(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent; “meager resources”; “meager fare”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest) (American spelling)

Having little flesh; lean; thin.

Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate, measly

(set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.

(mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g, as chalk).

Synonyms

• See also impoverished

Verb

meager (third-person singular simple present meagers, present participle meagering, simple past and past participle meagered)

(American spelling, transitive) To make lean.

Anagrams

• Graeme, meagre

Source: Wiktionary

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Mea"ger, Mea"gre, a. Etym: [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. Emaciate, Maigre.]

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

2. 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. "Meager soil." Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.

3. (Min.)

Definition: Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

Syn.

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

Mea"ger, Mea"gre, v. t.

Definition: To make lean. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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