| ADJECTIVE | all | meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy | deficient in amount or quality or extent |
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| Sounds | miy'ger | |
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| Rhymes | agar ... younger: 63 rhymes with ger... | |
| Meaning | Deficient in amount or quality or extent. | |
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| Synonyms | meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy | |
| Attribute of | sufficiency, adequacy | The quality of being sufficient for the end in view |
| Narrower | bare, scanty, spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity |
| exiguous | Extremely scanty | |
| hand-to-mouth | Providing only bare essentials | |
| hardscrabble | Barely satisfying a lower standard | |
| measly, miserable, paltry | contemptibly small in amount | |
| See also | insufficient, deficient | Of a quantity not able to fulfill / fulfill a need or requirement |
| minimal, minimum | The least possible | |
| scarce | Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand | |
| Opposite | ample | More than enough in size or scope or capacity |
| Spanish | deficiente, escaso, exiguo, pobre, raquítico | |
| Catalan | escàs, exigu, raquític | |
| Nouns | meagerness | the quality of being meager |
| Adverbs | meagerly | to a meager degree or in a meager manner |
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