meagre
adjective
1. deficient in amount or quality or extent
Similar word(s): scarce, bare, scanty, spare, exiguous, hardscrabble, measly, miserable, paltry, minimal, minimum, deficient, insufficient, meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy
Sentences with meagre as an adjective:
- Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
- He was given meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
noun
1. Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
verb
1. (transitive) To make lean.