单词 | meagreness |
释义 | meagreness (once / 32294 pages) n WORD FAMILY meagre: meagrely, meagreness, meagrest USAGE EXAMPLESThey feel that this life has an unaccountable poverty and meagreness in it. Dods, Marcus, The Expositor's Bible: The Book of...(2012) A realization of its meagreness and emptiness stole over her till she could hardly keep the tears back. Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows), The Little Colonel at Boarding-Scho...(2012) Schleiermacher could not contemplate the wretched meagreness and degradation of his age without being moved as by 'a heavenly impulse.' Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, Transcendentalism in New England—A...(2012) n the quality of being meager Syn|Hypo|Hyper exiguity, leanness, meagerness, 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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