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adjective ˈmiːɡəˈmiɡər 1(of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality. they were forced to supplement their meagre earnings a meagre diet of bread and beans Example sentencesExamples - Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination.
- All the same he would queue up with the other drones for hours to receive his meagre earnings.
- Colin Farrell, the latest Irish actor to make it in Hollywood, might command millions for a movie, but other Irish actors are struggling on meagre wages in theatre and television at home.
- In a household where one of the parents was a newly graduated professor of linguistics and the other an artist, income was usually rather meagre and spasmodic in nature.
- Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light.
- Although she was managing to get by on the meagre salary she drew tutoring primary-school children after school, it most likely wouldn't last.
- While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread.
- The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad.
- He had laid off some heavy bets recently and his meagre earnings as a postman would not cover them.
- Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.
- Shadows offered only meagre protection, but it was protection I was thankful for as I listened to her footsteps come down the hall toward me, the steps slow and measured.
- A staggering 71% of workers in the industry don't even have access to a pension at work and many will be reliant on a meagre state pension to provide their retirement income.
- Its greatest weakness is its meager budget and limited scope.
- Long waiting lists, a meagre state health budget and inadequate hospital services prompted the three men to raise cash and build their own hospital on the southside of Dublin.
- And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe.
- The institutions' motivation is obvious: they are thinking about what you'll be earning in ten years time, rather than the meagre sums many students earn now.
- The big winner (or big loser, depending on your perspective) wins $50,000, a suitably meagre sum for a Canadian game show.
- He began to drink heavily, left London in 1914, and spent the rest of his life roaming around Ireland, living off meagre earnings from hastily scribbled articles and stories.
- I was being jerked around in my seat like a rag doll and in fear I reached for the dash to provide some form of meagre support.
- Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
Synonyms inadequate, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, insufficient, sparse, spare, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, skimpy, short, little, lean, small, slight, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny, miserly, niggardly, beggarly informal measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling rare exiguous - 1.1 (of a person or animal) lean; thin.
Example sentencesExamples - The gutters were choked with inedible refuse: sticks, feathers, rags, skeletons of animals that had been boiled for their meager flesh.
- She seemed so meagre and weak, like her body had lost that glow.
- She had a slim and meager body, her neck was long, and her cheekbones were easily distinguished.
- We had no idea who she was, and only her meager profile gave proof that she was in fact female beneath the armor.
Synonyms thin, thin as a rake, lean, skinny, spare, scrawny, scraggy, gangling, gangly, spindly, stringy, lanky, reedy, bony, raw-boned, gaunt, underweight, emaciated, skeletal, starved, underfed, undernourished, attenuated, wraithlike, cadaverous, wasted, anorexic
Derivatives adverb ˈmiːɡəliˈmiɡərli I lived meagerly on my savings and supported my son and myself with no child support. Example sentencesExamples - But elsewhere, it wasn't taken seriously and anti-virus programs were used meagrely in the eastern part of the globe.
- It was meagerly decorated by the art department, but it flourished.
- It was meagerly furnished, but comfortable and cozy.
- He lives very meagerly and asks no buddy for help, they don't care.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'lean'): from Old French maigre, from Latin macer. noun ˈmiːɡə British A large predatory marine fish of the drum family, found in the Mediterranean, eastern Atlantic, and south-western Indian Ocean. It is an important food fish in southern Africa. Argyrosomus hololepidotus, family Sciaenidae Called kabeljou in South Africa
Origin Mid 16th century: from French, noun use of maigre 'lean, thin'. Definition of meager in US English: meager(British meagre) adjectiveˈmēɡərˈmiɡər 1(of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality. they were forced to supplement their meager earnings a meager diet of bread and beans Example sentencesExamples - The institutions' motivation is obvious: they are thinking about what you'll be earning in ten years time, rather than the meagre sums many students earn now.
- Colin Farrell, the latest Irish actor to make it in Hollywood, might command millions for a movie, but other Irish actors are struggling on meagre wages in theatre and television at home.
- And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe.
- Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.
- All the same he would queue up with the other drones for hours to receive his meagre earnings.
- Although she was managing to get by on the meagre salary she drew tutoring primary-school children after school, it most likely wouldn't last.
- The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad.
- Long waiting lists, a meagre state health budget and inadequate hospital services prompted the three men to raise cash and build their own hospital on the southside of Dublin.
- Its greatest weakness is its meager budget and limited scope.
- Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light.
- Shadows offered only meagre protection, but it was protection I was thankful for as I listened to her footsteps come down the hall toward me, the steps slow and measured.
- A staggering 71% of workers in the industry don't even have access to a pension at work and many will be reliant on a meagre state pension to provide their retirement income.
- While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread.
- I was being jerked around in my seat like a rag doll and in fear I reached for the dash to provide some form of meagre support.
- Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
- He had laid off some heavy bets recently and his meagre earnings as a postman would not cover them.
- Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination.
- The big winner (or big loser, depending on your perspective) wins $50,000, a suitably meagre sum for a Canadian game show.
- He began to drink heavily, left London in 1914, and spent the rest of his life roaming around Ireland, living off meagre earnings from hastily scribbled articles and stories.
- In a household where one of the parents was a newly graduated professor of linguistics and the other an artist, income was usually rather meagre and spasmodic in nature.
Synonyms inadequate, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, insufficient, sparse, spare, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, skimpy, short, little, lean, small, slight, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny, miserly, niggardly, beggarly - 1.1 (of a person or animal) lean; thin.
Example sentencesExamples - She seemed so meagre and weak, like her body had lost that glow.
- We had no idea who she was, and only her meager profile gave proof that she was in fact female beneath the armor.
- She had a slim and meager body, her neck was long, and her cheekbones were easily distinguished.
- The gutters were choked with inedible refuse: sticks, feathers, rags, skeletons of animals that had been boiled for their meager flesh.
Synonyms thin, thin as a rake, lean, skinny, spare, scrawny, scraggy, gangling, gangly, spindly, stringy, lanky, reedy, bony, raw-boned, gaunt, underweight, emaciated, skeletal, starved, underfed, undernourished, attenuated, wraithlike, cadaverous, wasted, anorexic
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘lean’): from Old French maigre, from Latin macer. |