meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent; “meager resources”; “meager fare”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
meagre (plural meagres)
Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
• (Argyrosomus regius): salmon-basse, shade-fish, stone basse
• (fish of family Sciaenidae): croaker, drum, drumfish, hardhead, sciaenid
meagre (comparative meagrer, superlative meagrest) (British spelling)
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate
(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).
meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred)
(transitive) To make lean.
• Graeme, meager
Source: Wiktionary
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.]
Mea"gre, n. Etym: [F. maigre.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large European sciænoid fish (Sciæna umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
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