meager. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

meager

SYLLABICATION:	mea·ger
PRONUNCIATION:	mgr
VARIANT FORMS:	also mea·gre
ADJECTIVE:	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.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English megre, thin, from Old French, from Latin macer. See mk- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	meager·ly —ADVERB meager·ness —NOUN


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