meagre

adjective (meagre — UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ; meager — US; more meagre, most meagre)

«meagre» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Small in amount, not enough: «a meagre meal», «meagre wages». tree →
(old) Thin, lean. tree →

In the lessons

In history lessons on poverty, war and workhouses, people lived on meagre food and meagre pay. In stories it shows hardship: In maths word problems, a meagre amount is a small one.

Examples

The prisoners ate a meagre meal of bread and water. tree →
They lived on a meagre wage. tree →
We had a meagre harvest after the dry summer. tree →
His meagre savings were not enough for a bike. tree →
The soup was meagre and thin. tree →
In the war, families had meagre rations. tree →
She did not touch it; and the next morning she went off again without taking the meagre breakfast which was left out for her. tree →

Note

Spelling: meagre (UK) / meager (US). Pronounced MEE-guh. Similar: scant, scanty, small. Opposite: plentiful, generous.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «meagre» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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