meager

/ˈmiɡɚ/

adj 4verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

live, satisfied, thin

VERB + MEAGER

furnishes, makes, pay, rattled, survives, underwhelmed, wasn't

MEAGER + NOUN

body, bread, earnings, entertainment, pensions, piece, portions, salary

PREP.

in, off, on, with

ADV.

extraordinarily

Definitions

adj

Having little flesh; lean; thin.

Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

A meager piece of cake in one bite.

The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.

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

verb

To make lean.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — deficient in amount or quality or extent

meagre
meagerly
stingy
scrimpy

Antonyms

ample

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

A meager piece of cake in one bite.

Wiktionary

The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

Wiktionary

...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...

Wiktionary

It was difficult to live on his meager earnings.

Tatoeba · #285469

The beggar rattled a few meager coins in his tin can.

Tatoeba · #702561

He fleeced three old ladies of their meager pensions.

Tatoeba · #1005996

Usage Notes

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