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The definition of meager is something that is thin, scanty or not enough.

(adjective)

An example of meager is two mushrooms for dinner.

See meager in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

thin; lean; emaciated
of poor quality or small amount; not full or rich; inadequate

Origin: ME megre < OFr megre (Fr maigre) < L macer, lean, thin < IE *makro- < base *māk-, long and thin > Gr makros, long, OE mæger, meager

Brit., etc. sp. meagre

Related Forms:

meagerly adverb
meagerness noun

See meager in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also mea·gre

adjective

Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.
Having little flesh; lean.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English megre, thin

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin macer; see māk- in Indo-European roots

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