Meagre meaning

Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
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Having little flesh; lean; thin.

Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.

He was given meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.

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(mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
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To make lean.
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Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
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Origin of meagre

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”)..

Sentence Examples

  • The work is only known to us in the meagre abridgment of Jordanes (ed.

  • Dietaries differed, here too ample, there meagre to starvation.

  • His parents were poor, and he received a meagre education, but made up for it by careful self-culture.

  • He has passed far beyond the bald and meagre diction of the early chroniclers.

  • He was generally furnished with notes, meagre indeed and inaccurate, of what had been said; but sometimes he had to find arguments and eloquence both for the ministry and for the opposition.

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