Definitions for MEAGER
mea·ger

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpyadjective

   deficient in amount or quality or extent

   "meager resources"; "meager fare"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meageradjective

   Having little flesh; lean; thin.

2. meageradjective

   Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.

   A meager piece of cake in one bite.

3. Etymology: From megre, maigre, from macer. Akin to Old English mæger, Dutch, German mager, Old Norse magr whence the Icelandic magur.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Meageradjective

   Etymology: maigre, French; macer; Latin.

   1. Lean; wanting flesh; starven.

   Thou art so lean and meagre waxen late,
   That scarce thy legs uphold thy feeble gate. Hubberd.

   Now will the canker sorrow eat my bud,
   And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
   And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
   As dim and meagre as an ague’s fit. William Shakespeare, King John.

   Meager were his looks,
   Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. William Shakespeare.

   Whatsoever their neighbour gets, they lose, and the very bread that one eats makes t’other meager. Roger L'Estrange.

   The reeking entrails
   He to his meagre mastiffs made a prey. Dryden.

   Fierce famine with her meagre face,
   And fevers of the fiery race,
   In swarms th’ offending wretch surround,
   All brooding on the blasted ground:
   And limping death, lash’d on by fate,
   Comes up to shorten half our date. Dryden.

   2. Poor; hungry.

   Canaan’s happy land, when worn with toil,
   Requir’d a Sabbath year to mend the meagre soil. Dryden.

2. To Meagerverb

   To make lean.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   It cannot be, that I should be so shamefully betrayed, and as a man meagered with long watching and painful labour, laid himself down to sleep. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. meager

   Meager refers to something that is deficient in quantity, quality, or extent, often inadequate or insufficient. It can describe anything from resources and finances to concepts such as attention or natural attributes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Meageradjective

   alt. of Meagre

2. Meagerverb

   alt. of Meagre

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MEAGER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Meager is ranked #65782 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Meager surname appeared 301 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Meager.
   
   96% or 289 total occurrences were White.
   1.6% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for MEAGER »

1. Graeme

2. meagre

How to pronounce MEAGER?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say MEAGER in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of MEAGER in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of MEAGER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of MEAGER in a Sentence

1. Charles Evans:

   Unfortunately that still leaves a lot of room for guess work ... because the inflation environment right now is meager, it ends up being a very individual assessment. ... It still ends up being artful.

2. Bob Pease:

   Our bill is centered on supporting American-headquartered companies, creating American jobs, here at home, this is one meager step to level the playing field that is heavily tilted to [Big Beer’s] advantage.

3. Jacqueline Choi:

   I had second thoughts about running it, as well as third and fourth and fifth thoughts, not only was I unsure whether my body would heal quickly enough from an unplanned C-section, butI was also worried that training and racing would diminish my already-meager milk supply. Fortunately, I was able to pump around the clock for a couple of months to trick my body into making more milk, and I actually had an amazing oversupply by the time I needed to race.

4. Chris Williamson:

   The rate of growth is modest rather than spectacular, however, and there are clearly countries which continue to struggle, weakness is centered in the region's core, with France's manufacturing sector still in decline and Germany only seeing very meager growth.

5. Jon Ralston:

   I have always believed that Mayor Pete's strategy here was to build a formidable infrastructure to capitalize on any momentum from Iowa and New Hampshire. And Mayor Pete has done so, mayor Pete meager standing in the polls here masks Mayor Pete commitment on the ground to use( Nevada) as a springboard. But Mayor Pete needs Joe Biden to falter before Nevada votes or this probably is moot.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=MEAGER
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Meager
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=MEAGER
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MEAGER
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html