meagre
Plural: meagres
Adjective
- Another spelling for meager, meaning scant or inadequate.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
Noun
- Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
Adj
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- 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
- Despite his MEAGRE rack, he managed to play a surprisingly good word.
- He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
- Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French maigre.
Synonyms
meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy, inadequate, paltry, salmon-basse, scanty, shade-fish, stone basse
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
meagre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmeagre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meagre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary