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meager    音标拼音: [m'igɚ]
a. 贫乏的,不毛的,瘦的

贫乏的,不毛的,瘦的

meager
adj 1: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager
resources"; "meager fare" [synonym: {meager}, {meagre},
{meagerly}, {stingy}, {scrimpy}] [ant: {ample}]

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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Meager \Mea"ger\, Meagre \Mea"gre\, v. t.
To make lean. [Obs.]
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155 Moby Thesaurus words for "meager":
Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, Tom Thumb, abstemious, angular,
angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal,
ascetic, austere, bare, bony, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy,
circumscribed, close, close-fitting, confined, constricted, cramp,
cramped, crowded, cursory, deficient, depthless, dumpy, dwarf,
dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, exiguous, few, flat, flat-chested,
fleshless, footling, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky,
impoverished, inadequate, inappreciable, incapacious, incipient,
incommodious, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent,
insignificant, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lank,
lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, limited, little, low,
mean, mere, midget, miniature, minimum, miserable, miserly, nanoid,
narrow, near, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes, paltry,
parsimonious, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poor, puny,
pygmy, rare, rawboned, restricted, rudimental, rudimentary, runty,
scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp,
scrimping, scrimpy, scrubby, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby,
shallow, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skimp,
skimping, skimpy, skin-deep, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small,
spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, spotty,
sprinkled, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened,
stunted, subsistence, superficial, thin, thin-bellied,
thin-fleshed, tight, tiny, trifling, trivial, twiggy, undersize,
undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
watery, wizened

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  • MEAGER Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    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
  • MEAGER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    Parents, peers, and others express and exhibit norms, practices, and skills against a backdrop of material resources that may be plentiful, sufficient, meager, or unstable
  • Meager - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    Meager means small and often applies to portions Your mother may only allow you a meager serving of chocolate cake, and you may need to eat a meager serving of veggies in order to deserve that dessert
  • MEAGER Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Meager means small and often applies to portions Your mother may only allow you a meager serving of chocolate cake, and you may need to eat a meager serving of veggies in order to deserve that dessert
  • MEAGER Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
    Some common synonyms of meager are scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, and sparse While all these words 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
  • MEAGER Synonyms Antonyms - 138 words | Thesaurus. com
    Find 138 different ways to say MEAGER, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus com
  • MEAGER | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
    Once they get there, having devoted meager savings to the trip, they are intent on one thing alone: securing and maintaining a paycheck
  • Meager - Wikipedia
    Look up meager or meagre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Meager If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article
  • meager - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest) (American spelling, common Canadian spelling) Having little flesh; lean; thin A meager piece of cake in one bite The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment
  • Meager - definition of meager by The Free Dictionary
    1 deficient in quantity or quality; scanty: a meager salary; meager fare 2 having little flesh; lean Also, esp Brit ,mea′gre





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