1. Deficient in amount, quality or extent
   "The meagerly furnished apartment had only the bare essentials";
   - meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], stingy [informal], scrimpy, meagrely [Brit, Cdn]

1. To a meager degree or in a meager manner
   "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference";
   - sparingly, slenderly, meagrely [Brit, Cdn]

See also: adequacy, bare, deficient, derisory, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, insufficient, measly, minimal, minimum, miserable, paltry, scanty, scarce, spare, sufficiency

Antonym: amply