adjective. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.

adjective. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble.

adjective. Having little flesh; lean.

To make lean.

Lean; thin; having little flesh.

Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.

Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.

Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.

Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.

Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.

2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.

noun. A sickness.

noun. Same as maigre, 2.

noun. A spent salmon, or kelt.

transitive verb. To make lean.

adjective. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.

adjective. 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. Opposite of ample.

adjective. Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

adjective. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.

adjective. Having little flesh; lean; thin.

adjective. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.

adjective. deficient in amount or quality or extent

"Republicans on both committees complained about the speed at which the bills are being pushed through the legislature, the lack of hearings on the proposals and what they called the meager information about what they would actually cost per job created."

meager day  thing  

bare  exiguous  hand-to-mouth  hardscrabble  meagre  

meagerly  meagerness  

Eger  Seeger  beleaguer  eager  leaguer  

adequate  ample  feeble  frugal  goodly  

Lenten  Lilliputian  Spartan  Tom Thumb  abstemious