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meager    音標拼音: [m'igɚ]
a. 貧乏的,不毛的,瘦的

貧乏的,不毛的,瘦的

meager
adj 1: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager
resources"; "meager fare" [synonym: {meager}, {meagre},
{meagerly}, {stingy}, {scrimpy}] [ant: {ample}]

Meager \Mea"ger\, Meagre \Mea"gre\, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L.
macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr.
makro`s long. Cf. {Emaciate}, {Maigre}.]
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1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
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Meager were his looks;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. --Shak.
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2. 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; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of
{ample}. [WordNet sense 1] [Narrower terms: {exiguous}]
[Narrower terms: {hardscrabble, marginal}] [Narrower
terms: {measly, miserable, paltry}] "Meager soil."
--Dryden.

Syn: meagre, meagerly, scanty.
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Of secular habits and meager religious belief.
--I. Taylor.
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His education had been but meager. --Motley.
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3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
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4. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from
a larger supply. [WordNet sense 2]

Syn: scrimpy, skimpy, skimping.
[WordNet 1.5]

Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor;
emaciated; scanty; barren.
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Meager \Mea"ger\, Meagre \Mea"gre\, v. t.
To make lean. [Obs.]
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155 Moby Thesaurus words for "meager":
Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, Tom Thumb, abstemious, angular,
angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal,
ascetic, austere, bare, bony, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy,
circumscribed, close, close-fitting, confined, constricted, cramp,
cramped, crowded, cursory, deficient, depthless, dumpy, dwarf,
dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, exiguous, few, flat, flat-chested,
fleshless, footling, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky,
impoverished, inadequate, inappreciable, incapacious, incipient,
incommodious, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent,
insignificant, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lank,
lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, limited, little, low,
mean, mere, midget, miniature, minimum, miserable, miserly, nanoid,
narrow, near, negligible, niggardly, no great shakes, paltry,
parsimonious, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poor, puny,
pygmy, rare, rawboned, restricted, rudimental, rudimentary, runty,
scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp,
scrimping, scrimpy, scrubby, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby,
shallow, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, skimp,
skimping, skimpy, skin-deep, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small,
spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, spotty,
sprinkled, squat, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened,
stunted, subsistence, superficial, thin, thin-bellied,
thin-fleshed, tight, tiny, trifling, trivial, twiggy, undersize,
undersized, underweight, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
watery, wizened

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  • MEAGER Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency
  • MEAGER Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Meager means small and often applies to portions Your mother may only allow you a meager serving of chocolate cake, and you may need to eat a meager serving of veggies in order to deserve that dessert
  • MEAGER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    Parents, peers, and others express and exhibit norms, practices, and skills against a backdrop of material resources that may be plentiful, sufficient, meager, or unstable
  • Meagher + Geer, P. L. L. P.
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  • Meager - definition of meager by The Free Dictionary
    1 Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty 2 Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain 3 Having little flesh; lean
  • MEAGER definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
    If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meager, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough
  • Meager - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    Meager means small and often applies to portions Your mother may only allow you a meager serving of chocolate cake, and you may need to eat a meager serving of veggies in order to deserve that dessert
  • meager adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
    Definition of meager adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
  • Meager vs Meagre - Definition Examples - GRAMMARIST
    These words come from different English variants but have the same meaning: lacking in quality or quantity or thin Use meager if you are writing for an American audience But if you are writing for British and Canadian readers, the appropriate spelling is meagre
  • meager - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest) (American spelling, common Canadian spelling) Having little flesh; lean; thin A meager piece of cake in one bite The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment





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