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What (who) is meagreness$552108$ - definition
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Meagre; Meagreness; Meager (disambiguation)
meagre
Note: in AM, use 'meager'
If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meagre, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough.
The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise...
ADJ [disapproval]
meagre
(US meager)
¦ adjective
1. lacking in quantity or quality.
2. (of a person or animal) lean; thin.
Derivatives
meagrely adverb
meagreness noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. maigre, from L. macer.
Meagre
·vt To make lean.
II. Meagre ·adj Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
III. Meagre ·adj Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
IV. Meagre ·noun A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
V. Meagre ·adj 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.
Wikipedia
Meager
Meager or Meagre may refer to:
- Meagre set (also meager set) in mathematics
- Mount Meager (British Columbia) in British Columbia, Canada
- Mount Meager massif in British Columbia, Canada
- Meager Creek, a creek in British Columbia, Canada
- Meagre, Argyrosomus regius, a fish
