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comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest
Having little flesh; lean; thin. examples
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent quotations examples
...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...
1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ..., page 54
Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...
1637, William Shakespeare, The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke..., page E5
Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.
2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su, Harvard University Press, page 26
(set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. examples
(mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). examples
third-person singular simple present meagers, present participle meagering, simple past and past participle meagered
(American spelling, transitive) To make lean. examples