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1. meager
adjective. ['ˈmiːgɝ'] deficient in amount or quality or extent.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- megre (Anglo-Norman)
Rhymes with Meager
- beleaguer
- sweger
- steger
- stegar
- schwieger
- pflieger
- pfleger
- krieger
- kreger
- kreeger
- kreager
- grieger
- fleeger
- cregar
- brieger
- breger
- zieger
- zeger
- weger
- sieger
- seger
- segar
- seeger
- seager
- rieger
- reger
- reagor
- leaguer
- heger
- gieger
How do you pronounce meager?
Pronounce meager as ˈmigər.
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Sentences with meager
1. Noun, singular or mass
Southern chicken with dumplings is comfort food that uses simple ingredients to stretch out a meager meal.
2. Adjective
Very meager quantities of ethylene can also be obtained from the streams found in oil refineries.
3. Adjective, comparative
In fact, the GreenKarat organization states “the return is meager.”
Quotes about meager
1. When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
