Usually means: Lacking in quantity or quality.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. meager: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. meager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meager: Vocabulary.com
  6. Meager, meager: Wordnik
  7. meager: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. meager: Wiktionary
  9. meager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meager: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meager: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Meager, meager: Dictionary.com
  13. meager: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. meager: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meager: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meager: Rhymezone
  18. meager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. meager: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. meager: Free Dictionary
  21. meager: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. meager: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. meager: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. meager: Legal dictionary

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  1. meager: Encyclopedia

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  1. meager: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. meager: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See meagerly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having little flesh; lean; thin.
adjective:  Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
adjective:  (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
verb:  (American spelling, transitive) To make lean.

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