meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent; “meager resources”; “meager fare”
meagerly, sparingly, slenderly, meagrely
(adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner; “these voices are meagerly represented at the conference”; “the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
meagerly (comparative more meagerly, superlative most meagerly)
In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.
• meagrely
Source: Wiktionary
Mea"ger*ly, Mea"gre*ly, adv.
Definition: Poorly; thinly.
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
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
