Yes, the word meager is a synonym, i.e., a word whose meaning is similar to that of another word. And meager also has synonyms.
You can look at a group of synonyms like a herd of deer. Although each doe, buck, and faun in the herd is an individual, each is a deer and each deer has much in common with their fellows. Similarly, while each word in a synonymous group is distinct it has much in common with its herd of synonyms.
The word meager is a synonym for these words and more, depending on context: small, inadequate, poor, insufficient, mere, minimum, miserable, paltry, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, sparse, tenuous, bare, deficient, inappreciable
And each of those words is a synonym for meager, too.
inadequate, meager, skimpy, and bare
close, near, limited, restricted, slim, meager
angular ,gaunt, meager, thin, slim, spare, skinny, lank
Synonyms for scarce (in short supply) can include sparse, scanty, rare, meager, or limited.
The word scanty is an adjective that means limited in some degree or quantity. A synonym for scanty is meager; meaning lacking.
the meager soil of an eroded plain.
the food they gave us was meager
Mount Meager is 2,680m or 8,793ft high
lacking in quantity and quality,like meager business
My meager credentials didn't impress the people in personnel. The grazing is meager here, so limit the number of your livestock. The food rations were meager for the soldiers in Okinawa.
He cooked using a meager amount of spice. The meager supply of food would not last through the winter.
A body meager with hunger will result from a meager diet.