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1. Deficient in amount, quality or extent
   "meagre resources"; "meagre fare"; "meagre resources";
   - meager [N. Amer], meagerly [N. Amer], stingy [informal], scrimpy, meagrely [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Lacking excess flesh
   - thin, lean, meager [N. Amer]

Derived forms: meagrest, meagrer

See also: adequacy, anorectic, anorexic, bare, body weight, boney, bony, cadaverous, deep-eyed, deficient, 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, wizened

Encyclopedia: Meagre