单词 | meagerness |
释义 | meagerness (once / 73412 pages) n WORD FAMILY meager: meagerest, meagerly, meagerness USAGE EXAMPLESNeither parent apologized for the meagerness of the food. John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me(1961) The meagerness of their clothing is one of the tokens of their sanctity. Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), From Egypt to Japan(2012) Atilio was giving vent to his melancholy by lamenting the meagerness of the afternoon tea. Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente, The Enemies of Women—(Los enemigos...(2012) n the quality of being meager Syn|Hypo|Hyper exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness wateriness meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) abstemiousnessrestricted to bare necessities spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinnessthe property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number |
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