Found 3 items, similar to meager.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: meager
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: meager
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Meager
Meager
\Mea"ger\, Meagre
\Mea"gre\, v. t.
To make lean. [Obs.]
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Meager
\Mea"ger\, Meagre
\Mea"gre\, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L.
macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr.
makro`s long. Cf.
Emaciate,
Maigre.]
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1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
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Meager were his looks;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. --Shak.
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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; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of
ample. [WordNet sense 1] [Narrower terms:
exiguous]
[Narrower terms:
hardscrabble, marginal] [Narrower
terms:
measly, miserable, paltry]
“Meager soil.”
--Dryden.
Syn: meagre, meagerly, scanty.
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Of secular habits and meager religious belief.
--I. Taylor.
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His education had been but meager. --Motley.
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3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
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4. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from
a larger supply. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: scrimpy, skimpy, skimping.
[WordNet 1.5]
Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor;
emaciated; scanty; barren.
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