also mea·gre adj.

1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.
3. Having little flesh; lean.

[Middle English megre, thin, from Old French, from Latin macer.]

meagerly mea'ger·ly adv.
meagerness mea'ger·ness n.

adjective

1. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy, thin. Slang measly. See big/small/amount, excess/insufficiency/enough.
2. Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean², rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat/thin.

adj

Definition: small, inadequate; poor
Antonyms: abundant, adequate, large, liberal, plenty, substantial, sufficient

adj

Definition: very thin
Antonyms: big, fat, full, large, wide

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IN BRIEF: Small amount.

A meager meal was served after the lengthy hike.

Dansk (Danish)
1.
adj. - knap, tilmålt, mager, ringe, tarvelig, tynd

2.
n. - [zool.] ørnefisk

Français (French)
1.
adj. - maigre, pauvre

2.
n. - type de poisson

Deutsch (German)
1.
adj. - mager, dürftig

2.
n. - (SAf) Adlerfisch, Adlerlachs

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - λιπόσαρκος, ισχνός, γλίσχρος, πενιχρός, άγονος

Italiano (Italian)
magro, frugale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - escasso

Русский (Russian)
худой, скудный, постный, недостаточный

Español (Spanish)
1.
adj. - escaso, exiguo, pobre, magro

2.
n. - de vigilia

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - mager, påver, knapp, torftig, ynklig

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
瘦的, 贫弱的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 瘦的, 貧弱的

한국어 (Korean)
1.
adj. - 양과 질이 부족한

2.
n. - (아프리카에 서식하는 kabeljou의 다른 이름) 육식어의 일종

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 肉のついていない, やせた, 貧弱な, 豊かでない, 肉を用いない

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רזה‬
n. - ‮זעום, עלוב, דל‬

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