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meager

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meager (US) adjective
or British meagre /ˈmiːgɚ/
meager (US)
adjective
or British meagre /ˈmiːgɚ/
Learner's definition of MEAGER
[more meager; most meager]
1 
: very small or too small in amount少量的；过少的
2 
: not having enough of something (such as money or food) for comfort or happiness缺乏的；不足的

— meagerly

adverb

— meagerness

noun [noncount]
Synonyms同义词
meager, scanty, and sparse mean not having enough of what is normal, necessary, or wanted.*meager、scanty和sparse均指缺乏正常的、必需的或想要的东西。
meager suggests a lack of good or necessary things.*meager意指缺乏好的或必需的东西。
scanty stresses that something is not large enough in size or amount.*scanty强调某物在大小或数量上不够。
sparse suggests a small number of things or people that are far apart.*sparse意指物或人稀少或稀疏。
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meager

adjective

mea·​ger ˈmē-gər How to pronounce meager (audio)
variants or meagre
1
: having little flesh : thin
meager were his looks, sharp misery had worn him to the bones William Shakespeare
2
a
: lacking desirable qualities (such as richness or strength)
leading a meager life
b
: deficient in quality or quantity
a meager diet
meagerly adverb
meagerness noun

Synonyms

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meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable.

meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency.

a meager portion of meat

scanty stresses insufficiency in amount, quantity, or extent.

supplies too scanty to last the winter

scant suggests a falling short of what is desired or desirable rather than of what is essential.

in January the daylight hours are scant

skimpy usually suggests niggardliness or penury as the cause of the deficiency.

tacky housing developments on skimpy lots

spare may suggest a slight falling short of adequacy or merely an absence of superfluity.

a spare, concise style of writing

sparse implies a thin scattering of units.

a sparse population

Example Sentences

Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee. We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest. She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day. They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage. Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.
Recent Examples on the Web On top of that, interest rates were meager, and the costs of acquisitions were low. Dave Cantin, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Instability, or fuel for storms, will be plentiful, but wind dynamics will be meager. Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 June 2022 The percentage of women on boards in Nasdaq companies was 30.4%, sitting much higher than the proportion of women on boards of Fortune 500, Russell 3000 and private companies (which come in at 26.5%, 26.7% and a meager 14%, respectively). Olivia Peluso, Forbes, 9 June 2022 Only 8% of Manhattan office workers are back five days a week, and a meager 38% of employees in the office on an average weekday, per the Partnership of New York City. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 June 2022 The all-season tires—only the CT4-V offers summers—limit grip to a meager 0.81 g. Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2020 But the meager growth still encouraged investors given the ongoing supply chain headwinds. Grady Mcgregor, Fortune, 30 June 2022 Despite a meager growth in the top line, the firm managed to report a 65% y-o-y jump in the adjusted net income to $7.6 billion. Trefis Team, Forbes, 3 June 2022 For instance, Gusto found that most of the job growth among the states that cut aid early stemmed from places with the highest vaccination rates, while those with low vaccination rates experienced meager job growth. Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English megre "thin, having little flesh from lack of food," borrowed from Anglo-French megre, maigre, going back to Latin macr-, macer "thin, lean, of little substance," going back to Indo-European *mh2ḱ-ro- "long, thin," whence also Germanic *magra- "lean" (whence Old English mæger "lean," Old High German magar, Old Norse magr), Greek makrós "long, tall, high, large"; derivative in *-ro-, adjective suffix, of a base *meh2ḱ-, *mh2ḱ- seen also in Latin maciēs "bodily thinness, wasting," Greek mêkos "length," mḗkistos "longest, highest," Avestan masah- "length, greatness," masišta- "highest," Hittite maklant- "thin, slim (of animals)"

Note: Alternatively from Indo-European *maḱ- if a is accepted as a vowel, as the laryngeal h2 is invoked solely to produce the right vocalism.

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of meager was in the 14th century
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