Word Meaning

Meaning of "meagre" and the crossword clue

- Deficient in quantity
- Insubstantial
- Lacking in quantity or quality
- Lean
- poor in quality
- Scant
- Scanty
- Slim (pickings)
- Sparing
- Sparing one thousand eager to convert
- Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
- Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.
- Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
- To make lean.
- A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.