Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

American Author

Tom Waits

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

American Musician

Alice Munro

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Canadian Writer

Amitabh Bachchan

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.

Indian Actor

Annie Lowrey

Home-health and personal-care work is one of the country's fastest-growing occupational sectors. But it is one marked by low pay and meager benefits, a problem that might become more urgent as the U.S.'s population continues to age.

American Journalist

Jack Monroe

But it's a disgrace that food banks are needed in the first place, patching up the holes left by an inefficient and downright barbaric attack on the meagre safety net of what remains of a notion of 'social security'.

British Journalist

Ahmed Ben Bella

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

Algerian Politician

Shuji Nakamura

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

Japanese Physicist

Vijayashanti

As an MP, I could hardly meet my constituents' genuine needs as the funds at an MP's disposal are meagre.

Indian Actress

James Cameron

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

American Director

Use 'meagre' to express that something is insufficient for needs or expectations.

Insufficiency

'Meagre' can highlight the simplicity, to the point of being bare or minimal.

Simplicity Context

Describing something as 'meagre' can imply disappointment or dissatisfaction.

Emotional Impact

Use 'meagre' to suggest that the quality of something is below expectations.

Quality Lacking

'Meagre' often describes resources that are too little to achieve a goal.

Resource Challenges

Using 'meagre' suggests that there is room for improvement or a need for more.

Implied Improvement

'Meagre' is often used to describe soil or land not conducive to growth or agricultural use.

Agricultural Use

In context, 'meagre' carries a negative tone, suggesting hardship or a struggle.

Negative Connotation

'Meagre' is useful for describing places where growth or progress is minimal and slow.

Sparse Growth

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 and even the shallow oceans, are so rich with amazing life that really is beyond our imagination. Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. I still, to this day, stand in absolute awe

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 Now Satyavan worked tirelessly to support their meager new life. His determination and devotion moved the princess.

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 from others it's a meager existence and the worst of the winter is still to come

Meagre

A very small amount, not enough.

Lacking in quality or substance.

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Lacking in richness, fertility or vigor.

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