meager synonyms

meager

modif.

  1. Thin

    lank, lanky, gaunt, starved, emaciated, lean, bony, slender, slim, spare, little, sparing, bare, scant, stinted, lacking, wanting, niggard, scraggy, scrawny, withered, wandlike, willowlike, willowy, lithe, narrow, tenuous, slightly-made, skinny, weedy*, peaked; see also thin 2, 4.

    Antonyms fat*, plump*, stout. *

  2. Scanty

    scanty, short, deficient, insufficient; see inadequate 1, scanty, wanting. See syn. study at scanty.

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