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adj. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.

adj. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.

adj. Having little flesh; lean.

adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.

adj. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.

adj. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.

adj. 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. Opposite of ample.

adj. Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

adj. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.

v. To make lean.

Lean; thin; having little flesh.

Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.

Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.

Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.

Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.

Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.

2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.

n. A sickness.

n. Same as maigre, 2.

n. A spent salmon, or kelt.

To make lean.

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent

"Republicans on both committees complained about the speed at which the bills are being pushed through the legislature, the lack of hearings on the proposals and what they called the meager information about what they would actually cost per job created."

miserable    hardscrabble    hand-to-mouth    scanty    spare    paltry    measly    bare    exiguous    meagre   

thing    meager day   

meagerness    meagerly   

lean    scrimpy    skimpy    skimping    impoverished   

Eger    Seeger    beleaguer    eager    leaguer    segar   

scanty    meagre    ample    inadequate    substantial    sparse    adequate    plentiful    modest    precarious