meager

adjsmall, inadequate; poor

adjvery thin

Word Origin & History

late 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), "lean, thin, emaciated" (of persons or animals), from Old French megre, maigre "thin" (12c.), from Latin macrum (nominative macer) "lean, thin" (source of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian magro), from PIE *makro- (see macro-). Of material things (land, food, etc.) from early 15c. Cognate Germanic words (Old Norse magr "thin," Old High German magar, German mager, Middle Dutch magher, Dutch mager, Old English mæger) come directly from the PIE root via Proto-Germanic *magras and are not from Latin.

Example Sentences for meager

With his meager strength he assisted, and the two managed to lower the body gently.

Yet, his comment, meager as it was, stood wholly in Mary's favor.

They were beautiful eyes, but the rest of Rose, oh, how pinched and meager!

It was part of my plan, this meager manning of the bandit ship.

The help they offered was meager, and slow, but it sufficed.

The curriculum was meager, the teaching poor and the discipline cruel.

The meager record of Florida necessitated about thirty letters of inquiry.

We were ready—as ready as we could be with our meager equipment.

What meager tithe do you bestow upon the religion of which you speak so much?

His education was meager, but he had mastered Daboll's Arithmetic.

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beggarly

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economical

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