Definition of MEAGER

meager

Adjective

  • Deficient in quantity, quality, or richness; scant.
  • deficient in amount or quality or extent
    • "meager resources"
    • "meager fare"

Adj

  • Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  • Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
  • Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
  • Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Verb

  • To make lean.

Examples

  • A meager piece of cake in one bite.
  • His MEAGER letter tiles left him struggling to form any substantial words.
  • The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur,
Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.

Antonyms

ample, dense

Scrabble Score: 9

meager: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
meager: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meager: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

meager: valid Words With Friends Word