Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: meagre)
- Deficient in amount, quality or extent
"meager resources"; "meager fare";
- meagre [Brit, Cdn], meagerly [N. Amer], stingy [informal], scrimpy, meagrely [Brit, Cdn]
- Lacking excess flesh
"The meager cattle showed signs of malnutrition";
- thin, lean, meagre [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: meagerest
See also: adequacy, anorectic, anorexic, bare, body weight, bony, cadaverous, deep-eyed, deficient, derisory, ectomorphic, emaciated, exiguous, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, hollow-eyed, insufficient, lank, lanky, measly, minimal, minimum, miserable, paltry, pinched, rawboned, reedlike, reedy, scanty, scarce, scarecrowish, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled [US], shrivelled [Brit, Cdn], shrunken, skeletal, skinny, slender, slender-waisted, slight, slim, slim thick, slim-waisted, spare, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, spindly, stringy, sufficiency, sunken-eyed, svelte, sylphic, sylphlike, thin, trim, twiggy, twiglike, underweight, wasp-waisted, wasted, weedy, wiry, wisplike, wispy, withered, wizen [archaic], wizened
Antonym: ample
Encyclopedia: Meager