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meager

/ˈmiːgɚ/

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adjective

US or Brit meagre

[more ~; most ~]

very small or too small in amount

Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.

We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.

meager wages

She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.

not having enough of something (such as money or food) for comfort or happiness

They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.

Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.

synonyms meager, scanty, and sparse mean not having enough of what is normal, necessary, or wanted. meager suggests a lack of good or necessary things.

They lived on a meager diet of rice and vegetables.

She earned a meager income of five dollars a day. scanty stresses that something is not large enough in size or amount.

She was wearing a scanty black dress.

We had a scanty supply of water. sparse suggests a small number of things or people that are far apart.

His hair had become white and sparse.

It's a large country with a sparse population.