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MEAGRE

• MEAGRE (adjective)
The adjective MEAGRE has 1 sense:

1. deficient in amount or quality or extent

Familiarity information: MEAGRE used as an adjective is very rare.

• MEAGRE (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Deficient in amount or quality or extent

Synonyms:

meager; meagerly; meagre; scrimpy; stingy

Context examples:

meager resources / meager fare

Similar:

bare; scanty; spare (lacking in amplitude or quantity)

exiguous (extremely scanty)

hand-to-mouth (providing only bare essentials)

hardscrabble; marginal (of a bare living gained by great labor)

measly; miserable; paltry (contemptibly small in amount)

Also:

scarce (deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand)

deficient; insufficient (of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement)

Attribute:

adequacy; sufficiency (the quality of being sufficient for the end in view)

"Close but no cigar."
(English proverb)
"There is no man nor thing without his defect, and often they have two or three of them"
(Breton proverb)
"God gives time but doesn't forget."
(Arabic proverb)
"The vine says to the vintager: "Make me poor, and I will make you rich.""
(Corsican proverb)

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