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meager    音标拼音: [m'igɚ]
a. 贫乏的,不毛的,瘦的

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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}.]
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] Meager


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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