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adjective
Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
synonyms: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy.
is similar to: bare, scanty, spare | exiguous | hand-to-mouth | hardscrabble | measly, miserable, paltry.
see also: scarce | minimal, minimum | deficient, insufficient.
is an attribute of: adequacy, sufficiency.
is the opposite of: ample.
derivation: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness.
adverb
To a meager degree or in a meager manner:— These voices are meagerly represented at the conference.
synonyms: meagrely, slenderly, sparingly.
is the opposite of: amply, fully | amply, richly.
pertainym: meager, meagerlya1, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | slender, slim | economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting.
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