| 单词 | meager |
| 释义 | meager (once / 2624 pages) adj 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 doesn't mean adequate — it means not enough. People with a limited supply of food may try to subsist on meager portions. People who make a meager amount of money probably have a hard time making rent. Meager and emaciated both derive from the Old French maigre. If you can remember that you will look emaciated if your diet is meager, you’ll use the word correctly. WORD FAMILYmeager: meagerest, meagerly, meagerness USAGE EXAMPLESToday, the hospital depends largely on meager fees from patients and assistance from international aid agencies. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) But that’s the interior; from outside, Paterson’s pallid brown home looks rather meager and suburban. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) Perhaps this is the wisdom of grandparents, who lived in areas where wine was consumed daily but the selection was meager and decreed by custom. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) adj deficient in amount or quality or extent meager resources meager fare Syn|Ant meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy scarce deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand bare, scanty, sparelacking in amplitude or quantity exiguousextremely scanty hand-to-mouthproviding only bare essentials hardscrabblebarely satisfying a lower standard measly, miserable, paltrycontemptibly small in amount minimal, minimumthe least possible deficient, insufficientof a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement ample more than enough in size or scope or capacity abundantpresent in great quantity full, goodhaving the normally expected amount generousmore than adequate full, wide, wide-cuthaving ample fabric sufficientof a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant |
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