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adjective

Meagre, Meager adj.

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. "Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones."

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. (Narrower terms: exiguous) (Narrower terms: hardscrabble, marginal) (Narrower terms: measly, miserable, paltry) "Meager soil."

Synonyms: meagre, meagerly, scanty. "Of secular habits and meager religious belief." "His education had been but meager."

(Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

Less than a desirable amount; of items distributed from a larger supply.

Synonyms: scrimpy, skimpy, skimping.

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

noun

Meagre n. (Written also maigre) (Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.

verb

Meagre, Meager v. t. To make lean. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Meagre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Meagre" Quotes from Famous Books

... that few of those commodities, which are the objects of commerce, are adulterated to a greater extent than wine. All persons moderately conversant with the subject, are aware, that a portion of alum is added to young and meagre red wines, for the purpose of brightening their colour; that Brazil wood, or the husks of elderberries and bilberries,[27] are employed to impart a deep rich purple tint to red Port of a pale, faint colour; that gypsum is used to render cloudy white wines transparent;[28] that an additional astringency ...

— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum

... attentively at her, as she put that singular question to me. It was then nearly one o'clock. All I could discern distinctly by the moonlight was a colourless, youthful face, meagre and sharp to look at about the cheeks and chin; large, grave, wistfully attentive eyes; nervous, uncertain lips; and light hair of a pale, brownish-yellow hue. There was nothing wild, nothing immodest in her manner: it was quiet and self-controlled, a little melancholy ...

— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins

... and almost hidden under various woolen draperies. He was dressed in a long coat of coarse, pale-blue cloth. He was bareheaded, and his long, white hair formed a weird frame for a face of bloodless hue and meagre proportions, from which two vacant eyes stared fixedly. He sat immovable and his arms hung limply over ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... effect. He proposed to her that she should come to the yacht, and indeed leave Brookfield to go on board. But Mrs. Chump was in that frame of mind when, shamefully wounded by others, we find our comfort in wilfully wounding ourselves. "No," she said (betraying a meagre mollification at every offer), "I'll not stop. I won't go to the yacht—unless I think better of ut. But I won't stop. Ye've hurrt me, and I'll say good-bye. I hope ye'll none of ye be widows. It's ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... tastes and ideals of the future man and woman is so great that it can scarcely be over-estimated. The use of correct and fluent language is largely a product of the home. Children imitate the speech heard at home; if this is incorrect, meagre, or coarse, the child is apt to have the same imperfection follow him ...

— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall

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