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meagre a. 瘦的;贫弱的;贫乏的 瘦的;贫弱的;贫乏的 meagre 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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [ 1913 Webster] Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Of secular habits and meager religious belief. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] His education had been but meager. -- Motley. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Meager
Meager \ Mea" ger\, Meagre \ Mea" gre\, v. t. To make lean. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster]
Meagre \ Mea" gre\, n. [ F. maigre.] ( Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish ({ Sciaena umbra} or { Sciaena aquila}), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [ Written also { maigre}.] [ 1913 Webster] 44 Moby Thesaurus words for " meagre": bare, barren, bony, broad, deficient, emaciated, exiguous, gaunt, general, half- starved, inadequate, indefinite, infertile, insufficient, lean, loose, measly, paltry, pathetic, piddling, plain, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimpy, simple, simplified, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparse, starving, thin, trifling, unadorned, underfed, undernourished, unelaborate, unembellished, unfruitful, unproductive, vague
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