meager
(British meagre)
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/icons/point.icon MEAGER, SCANTY, SCANT, SKIMPY, SPARE, SPARSE mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable.
MEAGER implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency.
e.g. a meager portion of meat
SCANTY stresses insufficiency in amount, quantity, or extent.
e.g. supplies too scanty to last the winter
SCANT suggests a falling short of what is desired or desirable rather than of what is essential.
e.g. in January the daylight hours are scant
SKIMPY usually suggests niggardliness or penury as the cause of the deficiency.
e.g. tacky housing developments on skimpy lots
SPARE may suggest a slight falling short of adequacy or merely an absence of superfluity.
e.g. a spare, concise style of writing
SPARSE implies a thin scattering of units.
e.g. a sparse population
adjective
(of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality:
〈量･質などが〉乏しい, 不十分な, 粗末な
e.g. they were forced to supplement their meager earnings
e.g. a meager diet of bread and beans.
(of a person or animal) lean; thin:
〈人などが〉やせた
e.g. a tall, meager man.
DERIVATIVES
meagerly |ˈmēɡərlē| (British meagrely) adverb
ORIGIN
Middle English (in the sense ‘lean’): from Old French maigre, from Latin macer.