Meager

What do we mean by meager?

Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. adjective

Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble. adjective

Having little flesh; lean. adjective

To make lean.

Lean; thin; having little flesh.

Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.

Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.

Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.

Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.

Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.

2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.

A sickness. noun

Same as maigre, 2. noun

A spent salmon, or kelt. noun

To make lean. transitive verb

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. adjective

Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. Opposite of ample. adjective

Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. adjective

Less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply. adjective

Having little flesh; lean; thin. adjective

To make lean.

Words that are spelled similarly to meager:
meager, eager, merger, meaner, megger, yeager, menger, seager, mager, mealer, meader, meagher, meaker, mezger.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word meager:
rations, garibaldi, massif, volcanic, caldera, belongings, inflation, adjusted, earnings, eruption, magma, volcanoes, geothermal, wages, salary, inaccurate, possessions, beginnings, erupted, finances, volcano, supplies, nascar, savings, inadequate, meal, resources, mount, explosive, belt, pension, southwestern, debris, springs, barely, budget, ago, income, diet, creek, sum, bread, considering, existence, pay, wells, circumstances, indicating, jobs, flows, peak, frequent, funds, columbia, supply.

Words that rhyme with meager:
eager, beleaguer, eger, leaguer, overeager, seeger, reger, seger, seager, segar, big leaguer, krieger, sieger, little leaguer, heger, kreger, eagar, rieger, major leaguer, minor leaguer, steger, gieger, pfleger, reagor, weger, pflieger, brieger, breger, cregar, deger, fatigue her, feger, fieger, fleeger, grieger, intrigue her, kreager, kreeger, schwieger, stegar, sweger, zeger, zieger.

Adjectives that are often used to describe meager:
old.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective meager:
resources, income, results, living, salary, supply, wages, earnings, rations, data, information, evidence, belongings, savings, existence, funds, knowledge, possessions, amount, supplies, diet, incomes, salaries, education, pay, support, fare, budget, meal, means, light, equipment, percent, returns, food, allowance, facilities, forces, breakfast, opportunities, benefits, beginnings, success, sum, facts, records, record, ration, provisions, amounts, store, livelihood, subsistence, efforts, wage, meals, pension, details, rewards, stock, budgets, collection, vocabulary, harvest, crops, portion, supper, profits, account, compensation, reserves, reports, capital, return, literature, kind, background, beginning, understanding, finances, contents, list, share, training, gains, rainfall, description, wardrobe, protection, remains.

Consonant match to meager:
mega, muggy, mugger, mega-, maggie, moggy, mcgee, mauger, mager, magee, magar, muggee, moga, mugu, mcghee, mcgirr, mcgough, moger, mcgaw, ma go, ma gu, mag a, mag er, magaw, may go, mcgagh, mcgaugh, mcghie, me go, meg a, meg who, meger, meigher, mi go, mo go, moo goo, mug a, mug he, mug i.

Words that sound like meager:
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