Definitions for meager

meager mea·ger

Spelling: [mee-ger]
IPA: /ˈmi gər/

Meager is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in meager (aeegmr).

Definitions for meager

adjective

  1. deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate:
  2. having little flesh; lean; thin:
  3. maigre.

Origin of meager

1300-50; Middle English megre Old French maigre Latin macer lean

Examples for meager

Look through that PDF I just linked to and feast on the meager amounts earmarked for democracy and assistance programs.

Rising to retrieve it, I offer her what meager reassurance I can muster.

Especially in a country where the minimum wage is a meager $3.00 an hour.

They were beautiful eyes, but the rest of Rose, oh, how pinched and meager!

He called on his parents not to accept any “meager compensation” for his death.

It was part of my plan, this meager manning of the bandit ship.

Personal consumption expenditures—people buying stuff—grew at a meager one percent rate in the first quarter.

With his meager strength he assisted, and the two managed to lower the body gently.

The help they offered was meager, and slow, but it sufficed.

Yet, his comment, meager as it was, stood wholly in Mary's favor.

Word Value for meager
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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