meagreness
41want — I. n. 1. Deficiency, absence, lack, dearth, default, defect. 2. Inadequacy, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, meagreness, shortness, defectiveness, failure, insufficiency, deficiency, paucity, poverty. 3. Need, necessity, requirement, desideratum …
42meagre — BrE, meager AmE adjective a meagre amount of food, money etc is too small and is much less than you need: meagre wages | a meager diet meagrely adverb meagreness noun (U) …
43meagre — UK [ˈmiːɡə(r)] / US [ˈmɪɡər] adjective smaller or less than you want or need a meagre food supply Derived words: meagrely adverb meagreness noun uncountable …
44meagre — /ˈmigə / (say meeguh) adjective 1. deficient in quantity or quality, or without fullness or richness. 2. having little flesh, lean, or thin. 3. → maigre. –noun (plural meagre or meagres) 4. a long, thin fish of the genus Sciaena, sometimes found… …
45meagre — (US meager) ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking in quantity or quality. 2) lean; thin. DERIVATIVES meagreness noun. ORIGIN Old French maigre, from Latin macer …
46abstemiousness — noun 1. restricted to bare necessities • Derivationally related forms: ↑abstemious • Hypernyms: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness, ↑ …
47inadequacy — noun 1. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 1) the inadequacy of unemployment benefits • Syn: ↑insufficiency, ↑deficiency • Ant: ↑adequacy, ↑sufficiency ( …
48meager — adjective deficient in amount or quality or extent (Freq. 4) meager resources meager fare • Syn: ↑meagre, ↑meagerly, ↑stingy, ↑scrimpy • Ant: ↑ …
49meagerly — I adjective deficient in amount or quality or extent meager resources meager fare • Syn: ↑meager, ↑meagre, ↑stingy, ↑scrimpy • Ant: ↑ …
50meagre — adj. (US meager) 1 lacking in amount or quality (a meagre salary). 2 (of literary composition, ideas, etc.) lacking fullness, unsatisfying. 3 (of a person or animal) lean, thin. Derivatives: meagrely adv. meagreness n. Etymology: ME f. AF megre,… …
