meager 音标拼音: [m'igɚ]
a . 贫乏的,不毛的,瘦的
贫乏的,不毛的,瘦的
meager adj 1 :
deficient in amount or quality or extent ; "
meager resources "; "
meager fare " [
synonym : {
meager }, {
meagre },
{
meagerly }, {
stingy }, {
scrimpy }] [
ant : {
ample }]
Meager \
Mea "
ger \,
Meagre \
Mea "
gre \,
a . [
OE .
merge ,
F .
maigre ,
L .
macer ;
akin to D . &
G .
mager ,
Icel .
magr ,
and prob .
to Gr .
makro `
s long .
Cf . {
Emaciate }, {
Maigre }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
Destitue of ,
or having little ,
flesh ;
lean .
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Meager were his looks ;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones . --
Shak .
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2 .
Destitute of richness ,
fertility ,
strength ,
or the like ;
defective in quantity ,
or poor in quality ;
poor ;
barren ;
scanty in ideas ;
wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery ;
as ,
meager resources ;
meager fare .
Opposite of {
ample }. [
WordNet sense 1 ] [
Narrower terms : {
exiguous }]
[
Narrower terms : {
hardscrabble ,
marginal }] [
Narrower terms : {
measly ,
miserable ,
paltry }] "
Meager soil ."
--
Dryden .
Syn :
meagre ,
meagerly ,
scanty .
[
1913 Webster ]
Of secular habits and meager religious belief .
--
I .
Taylor .
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His education had been but meager . --
Motley .
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3 . (
Min .)
Dry and harsh to the touch ,
as chalk .
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4 .
less than a desirable amount ; --
of items distributed from a larger supply . [
WordNet sense 2 ]
Syn :
scrimpy ,
skimpy ,
skimping .
[
WordNet 1 .
5 ]
Syn :
Thin ;
lean ;
lank ;
gaunt ;
starved ;
hungry ;
poor ;
emaciated ;
scanty ;
barren .
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1913 Webster ]
Meager
Meager \
Mea "
ger \,
Meagre \
Mea "
gre \,
v .
t .
To make lean . [
Obs .]
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1913 Webster ]
155 Moby Thesaurus words for "
meager ":
Lenten ,
Lilliputian ,
Spartan ,
Tom Thumb ,
abstemious ,
angular ,
angustifoliate ,
angustirostrate ,
angustisellate ,
angustiseptal ,
ascetic ,
austere ,
bare ,
bony ,
cheeseparing ,
chinchy ,
chintzy ,
circumscribed ,
close ,
close -
fitting ,
confined ,
constricted ,
cramp ,
cramped ,
crowded ,
cursory ,
deficient ,
depthless ,
dumpy ,
dwarf ,
dwarfed ,
dwarfish ,
elfin ,
exiguous ,
few ,
flat ,
flat -
chested ,
fleshless ,
footling ,
frugal ,
gangling ,
gangly ,
gaunt ,
gawky ,
impoverished ,
inadequate ,
inappreciable ,
incapacious ,
incipient ,
incommodious ,
inconsequential ,
inconsiderable ,
infrequent ,
insignificant ,
insufficient ,
isthmian ,
isthmic ,
jejune ,
lank ,
lanky ,
lean ,
lean -
fleshed ,
lean -
looking ,
limited ,
little ,
low ,
mean ,
mere ,
midget ,
miniature ,
minimum ,
miserable ,
miserly ,
nanoid ,
narrow ,
near ,
negligible ,
niggardly ,
no great shakes ,
paltry ,
parsimonious ,
petty ,
picayune ,
picayunish ,
piddling ,
poor ,
puny ,
pygmy ,
rare ,
rawboned ,
restricted ,
rudimental ,
rudimentary ,
runty ,
scant ,
scanty ,
scarce ,
scattered ,
scraggy ,
scrawny ,
scrimp ,
scrimping ,
scrimpy ,
scrubby ,
seldom met with ,
seldom seen ,
shabby ,
shallow ,
short ,
shriveled ,
shrunk ,
shrunken ,
skeletal ,
skimp ,
skimping ,
skimpy ,
skin -
deep ,
skinny ,
slender ,
slight ,
slim ,
small ,
spare ,
sparing ,
sparse ,
spidery ,
spindling ,
spindly ,
spotty ,
sprinkled ,
squat ,
starvation ,
stingy ,
stinted ,
strait ,
straitened ,
stunted ,
subsistence ,
superficial ,
thin ,
thin -
bellied ,
thin -
fleshed ,
tight ,
tiny ,
trifling ,
trivial ,
twiggy ,
undersize ,
undersized ,
underweight ,
unnourishing ,
unnutritious ,
watered ,
watery ,
wizened
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