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Definition of Meager
1. Adjective. Deficient in amount or quality or extent. "Meager fare"
Attributes: Adequacy, Sufficiency
Also: Scarce, Minimal, Minimum, Deficient, Insufficient
Similar to: Bare, Scanty, Spare, Exiguous, Hand-to-mouth, Hardscrabble, Measly, Miserable, Paltry
Antonyms: Ample
Derivative terms: Meagerness, Meagreness
Definition of Meager
1. a. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
2. v. t. To make lean.
Definition of Meager
1. Adjective. Having little flesh; lean; thin. ¹
2. Adjective. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meager
1. deficient in quantity or quality [adj] : MEAGERLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meager
Literary usage of Meager
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1913)
"John meager v. Samuell Dutch. Non-performance of an agreement. Verdict for plaintiff.
If defendant refuse to carry him to sea according to covenant, ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Both knave and fool the merchant we '} And meager i ';, ! vi« In Israel some
belie may call, To pay great sums, and to compound the small: For who would ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"case \в very meager In stating the terms of tue complaint, but ordinarily such
an action is in equity, involving an ascertainment of the assets of the bank ..."
4. Nome and Seward Peninsula: History, Description, Biographies and Stories by Edward Sanford Harrison (1905)
"... Country—Voyages of Vitus Bering—The Russian Fur Traders—meager History of
Alaska North of the Yuk:n—Purchase of Alaska by the United States In 1867—Will ..."
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