Definitions for: Meager

[adj] deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
[adj] barely adequate; "a meager allowance"

Webster (1913) Definition: Mea"ger, Meagre Mea"gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L.
macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. ?
long. Cf. 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.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor;
emaciated; scanty; barren.

Mea"ger, Meagre Mea"gre, v. t.
To make lean. [Obs.]

Synonyms: bare(a), exiguous, hand-to-mouth(a), hardscrabble, marginal, meagerly, meagre, measly, miserable, paltry, scanty, scrimpy, spare, stingy, ungenerous

Antonyms: ample

See Also: deficient, insufficient, scarce

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