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| | Meagreness | { }, n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Syn. -- meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meagerness | | Meagre | n. [ F. maigre. ] (Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [ Written also maigre. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Meagre | { } 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Meager were his looks;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ wns=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. [ 1913 Webster ] His education had been but meager. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- scrimpy, skimpy, skimping. [ WordNet 1.5 ] Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meager | | Meagre | { }, v. t. To make lean. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meager | | Meagrely | { }, adv. Poorly; thinly. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meagerly |
| | | meagre | (มี'เกอะ) adj. ขาดแคลน, น้อย, ไม่พอเพียง, ยากจน, ผอม, See also: meagerness n. meagreness n., Syn. poor, scanty |
| | meagre | (adj) น้อย, ผอม, ขาดแคลน, ไม่พอเพียง |
| | | | Meagre | n. [ F. maigre. ] (Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [ Written also maigre. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Meagre | { } 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Meager were his looks;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ wns=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. [ 1913 Webster ] His education had been but meager. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- scrimpy, skimpy, skimping. [ WordNet 1.5 ] Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meager | | Meagre | { }, v. t. To make lean. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meager | | Meagrely | { }, adv. Poorly; thinly. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meagerly | | Meagreness | { }, n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Syn. -- meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Meagerness |
| | 乏しい | [とぼしい(P);ともしい, toboshii (P); tomoshii] (adj-i) meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor; (P) #9,108 [Add to Longdo] | | その日暮らし;その日暮し;其の日暮らし;其の日暮し | [そのひぐらし, sonohigurashi] (n) (1) financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; (2) living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time [Add to Longdo] | | 細やか | [ささやか, sasayaka] (adj-na) meagre; meager; modest; (P) [Add to Longdo] | | 細微 | [さいび, saibi] (adj-na, n) minute; meager; meagre; mean [Add to Longdo] | | 痩せ腕 | [やせうで, yaseude] (n) (1) thin arm; (2) meager income; meagre income [Add to Longdo] | | 薄給 | [はっきゅう, hakkyuu] (n, adj-no) small (meagre, meager) salary [Add to Longdo] | | 貧弱 | [ひんじゃく, hinjaku] (adj-na, n) poor; meagre; meager; insubstantial; (P) [Add to Longdo] | | 貧小 | [ひんしょう, hinshou] (adj-na, n) petty; trivial; trifling; paltry; meager; meagre [Add to Longdo] |
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