meagerness

mea·ger

also mea·gre  (mē′gər)

adj.

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

2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.

3. Having little flesh; lean.

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[Middle English megre, thin, from Old French, from Latin macer; see māk- in Indo-European roots.]

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mea′ger·ly adv.

mea′ger·ness n.

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Noun

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meagerness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot exiguity, leanness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes" abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessities spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

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