Dictionary Definition
meager adj
1 deficient in amount or quality or extent;
"meager resources"; "meager fare" [syn: meagre, meagerly] [ant: ample]
2 barely adequate; "a meager allowance" [syn:
scrimpy]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Alternative spellings
- meagre (Commonwealth English)
Pronunciation
- /ˈmiːɡɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːɡə(r)
Adjective
en-adj er- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- Deficient or
inferior in amount,
quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
- A meager piece of cake in one bite.
Translations
lean
deficient or inferior
West Frisian
Adjective
meagerExtensive Definition
Meager or Meagre (see
American and British English spelling differences) can refer
to:
- Meagre set (also meager set) in mathematics
- Mount Meager (also Mount Meagre, Mount Meagher) in British Columbia, Canada
- Meagre, Argyrosomus regius, a fish
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lenten,
Lilliputian,
Spartan, Tom Thumb,
abstemious, angular, angustifoliate, angustirostrate,
angustisellate,
angustiseptal,
ascetic, austere, bare, bony, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, crowded, cursory, deficient, depthless, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, exiguous, few, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, footling, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, impoverished, inadequate, inappreciable, incapacious, incipient, incommodious, inconsequential,
inconsiderable,
infrequent, insignificant, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
limited, little, low, mean, mere, midget, miniature, minimum, miserable, miserly, nanoid, narrow, near, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes,
paltry, parsimonious, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poor, puny, pygmy, rare, rawboned, restricted, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, scrubby, seldom met with, seldom
seen, shabby, shallow, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skimp, skimping, skimpy, skin-deep, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, spotty, sprinkled, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, stunted, subsistence, superficial, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed,
tight, tiny, trifling, trivial, twiggy, undersize, undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery, wizened