meagerly

1. 1.

   to a meager degree or in a meager manner

   “these voices are meagerly represented at the conference”

   “the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources”

   Synonymssparinglyslenderlymeagrely

   Antonymsamply

Questions about meagerly

What does meagerly mean?

meagerly means "deficient in amount or quality or extent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meagerly?

meagerly has 4 syllables: me-a-ger-ly. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for meagerly?

Close synonyms include meager, meagre, stingy, scrimpy, sparingly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of meagerly?

The recorded antonyms are amply.

Is meagerly a common word?

meagerly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.