HyperDic: meagerness

English > 1 sense of the word meagerness:
NOUNattributemeagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguitythe quality of being meager
English > meagerness: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute
MeaningThe quality of being meager.
Synonymsmeagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
Narrowerabstemiousnessrestricted to bare necessities
sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinnessThe property of being scanty or scattered
waterinessmeagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
Broaderinsufficiency, inadequacy, deficiencylack of an adequate quantity or number
Spanishescasez, exigüidad, poquedad
Adjectivesmeagerdeficient in amount or quality or extent

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