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MEAGRENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does meagreness mean?

• MEAGRENESS (noun)
The noun MEAGRENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being meager

Familiarity information: MEAGRENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MEAGRENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being meager

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; scantiness; scantness; poorness

Context example:

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

Hypernyms ("meagreness" is a kind of...):

deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meagreness"):

wateriness (meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food))

abstemiousness (restricted to bare necessities)

spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness (the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness)

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