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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -meagre-, *meagre*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
meagre(adj) ขาดแคลน, Syn. meager, scanty, deficient, insufficient

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
meagre(มี'เกอะ) adj. ขาดแคลน, น้อย, ไม่พอเพียง, ยากจน, ผอม, See also: meagerness n. meagreness n., Syn. poor, scanty

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
meagre(adj) น้อย, ผอม, ขาดแคลน, ไม่พอเพียง

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Eking out a meagre existence by collecting cans....แล้วก้อ หัวข้อข่าวแบบไหนที่คุณจะเขียนงั้นเหรอ Hero (1992)
Food and water is scarce and we are distributing rations, but they're very meagre.อาหารและน้ำ ขาดแคลน พวกเราปันส่วนอาหารให้แต่พวกเขาก็ยังขาดแคลน The Labyrinth of Gedref (2008)
Sillum farming is a meagre tradeทำฟาร์มซิลลั่มเป็นอาชีพที่ขาดแคลน Bounty Hunters (2010)
Jhilmil's father was left to live off a meagre monthly allowance, like the servants.พ่อของชิลมิลได้รับเบี้ยเลี้ยงเล็กน้อย เท่าๆกับคนใช้ Barfi! (2012)
Against the meagre might of Earth?กับพวกที่ไร้พลังจากโลกเนี่ยนะ? The Avengers (2012)

Thai-English-French: Volubilis Dictionary 1.0
กระจ้อย[krajøi] (adj) EN: insignificant ; negligible ; meagre ; little  FR: insignifiant

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
meagre
meagrely
meagreness

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
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

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

{ }, 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

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
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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