English-Thai Dictionary

meager

ADJ ขาดแคลน  ยากจน  ไม่ พอเพียง  มี น้อย มาก  few scant scarce many numerous kad-kan

 

meager

ADJ ผอม  บาง  แห้ง  skinny bony pom

 

meagerly

ADV อย่าง ขาดแคลน  scantly skimpily yang-kad-kan

 

meagerness

N ความขาดแคลน  scarcity need poverty kwam-kad-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MEAGER

a.[L. macer; Gr. small; allied to Eng. meek. ] 1. Thin; lean; destitute of flesh or having little flesh; applied to animals.
Meager were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
2. Poor; barren; destitute of richness, fertility, or any thing valuable; as a meager soil; meager limestone.
3. Barren; poor; wanting strength of diction, or richness of ideas or imagery; as a meager style or composition; meager annals.

 

MEAGER

v.t.To make lean. [Not used. ]

 

MEAGERLY

adv. Poorly; thinly.

 

MEAGERNESS

n.Leanness; want of flesh. 1. Poorness; barrenness; want of fertility or richness.
2. Scantiness; barrenness; as the meagerness of service.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MEAGER; MEAGRE

Mea "ger, Mea "gre, a. Etym: [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. Emaciate, Maigre. ]

 

1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.

 

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. "Meager soil. " Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.

 

3. (Min. )

 

Defn: Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

 

Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.

 

MEAGER; MEAGRE

MEAGER; MEAGRE Mea "ger, Mea "gre, v. t.

 

Defn: To make lean. [Obs. ]

 

MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY

MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY Mea "ger *ly, Mea "gre *ly, adv.

 

Defn: Poorly; thinly.

 

MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS

MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS Mea "ger *ness, Mea "gre *ness, n.

 

Defn: The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

meager

mea ger |ˈmēgər ˈmiɡər |(Brit. meagre ) ▶adjective (of something provided or available ) lacking in quantity or quality: they were forced to supplement their meager earnings. • (of a person or animal ) lean; thin. DERIVATIVES mea ger ly adverb ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘lean ’): from Old French maigre, from Latin macer .

 

meagerness

mea ger ness |ˈmēgərnis ˈmiɡərnɪs | ▶noun lack of quantity or quality; inadequacy: job satisfaction eclipses the meagerness of income.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

meager

meager adjective 1 their meager earnings: inadequate, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, insufficient, sparse, deficient, negligible, skimpy, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny, miserly, niggardly, beggarly; informal measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling; formal exiguous. ANTONYMS abundant. 2 a tall, meager man: thin, lean, skinny, spare, scrawny, gangling, gangly, spindly, stringy, bony, rawboned, gaunt, underweight, underfed, undernourished, emaciated, skeletal. ANTONYMS fat.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

meager

mea ger ｟英 ｠-gre /míːɡə r /形容詞 1 〈量 質などが 〉乏しい, 不十分な ▸ a meager weekly income 乏しい週給 .2 〈人 動物などが 〉やせた .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞