| 单词 | meager |
| 释义 | meager (migər) regional note: in BRIT, use meagre adjective If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meager, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough. [disapproval] The rations that they gave us were meager and inadequate. More Synonyms of meager meager in American English (ˈmigər) adjective Brit., etc. sp. ˈmeagre SYNONYMY NOTE: meager literally implies an emaciated thinness and, hence, connotes a lack of those qualitieswhich give something richness, vigor, strength, etc. [meager cultural resources]; scanty implies an inadequacy in amount, number, quantity, etc. of something essential [a scanty income]; scant is applied to a barely sufficient amount or a stinted quantity [the scant attendance at the concert]; spare implies less than a sufficient amount but does not necessarily connote great hardship[to live on spare rations]; sparse applies to a scanty quantity that is thinly distributed over a wide area [his sparse hair]1. thin; lean; emaciated 2. of poor quality or small amount; not full or rich; inadequate OPPOSITES: ample, abundant, plentiful Derived forms meagerly (ˈmeagerly) adverb meagerness (ˈmeagerness) noun Word origin ME megre < OFr megre (Fr maigre) < L macer, lean, thin < IE *makro- < base *māk-, long and thin > Gr makros, long, OE mæger, meagerExamples of 'meager' in a sentence |
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