meagre

1. 1.

   deficient in amount or quality or extent

   “meager resources”

   “meager fare”

   Synonymsmeagermeagerlystingyscrimpy

   Similarbareexiguoushand-to-mouthhardscrabblemeasly

Other forms of meagre

comparative

meagrer·

superlative

meagrest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meagre

What does meagre mean?

meagre means "deficient in amount or quality or extent".

How many syllables are in meagre?

meagre has 2 syllables: me-agre. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for meagre?

Close synonyms include meager, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy. 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.

Is meagre a common word?

meagre is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.