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mea·ger
 meager
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- pronunciation:
- mi
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
low in quantity, extent, strength, or richness; scanty or feeble.
With meager funds, the project had to be stopped.The poor subsist on a meager diet consisting mainly of rice.- synonyms:
- exiguous, inadequate, insufficient, low, poor, scant, scanty, slim
- antonyms:
- abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, handsome, lavish, lush, profuse, sturdy
- similar words:
- bare, beggarly, feeble, frugal, lean, little, mean, measly, niggardly, paltry, piddling, scarce, scrimpy, sketchy, skimpy, slender, slight, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy, wanting
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| definition 2: |
having little weight or flesh; thin or scrawny.
The child's meager body was near starvation.- synonyms:
- scrawny, skimpy, skinny, slight
- antonyms:
- fat, heavy
- similar words:
- bony, emaciated, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, puny, rawboned, scraggy, thin
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| related words: |
bleak, inadequate, insufficient, light, marginal, mean, narrow, pathetic, remote, short, spare, stringent, tight |
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| derivations: |
meagerly (adv.), meagerness (n.) |
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