Meagre
adjective
A very small amount, not enough.
He lived on a meagre diet of bread and water.
adjective
Lacking in quality or substance.
The meagre resources available were not enough to sustain the project
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Disapproving
adjective
Lacking in richness, fertility or vigor.
The soil in the region is too meagre to support agriculture
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Disapproving
adjective
A very small amount, not enough.
He lived on a meagre diet of bread and water.
adjective
Lacking in quality or substance.
The meagre resources available were not enough to sustain the project
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Lacking in richness, fertility or vigor.
The soil in the region is too meagre to support agriculture
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Insufficiency
Use 'meagre' to express that something is insufficient for needs or expectations.
Their meagre income could hardly cover the rent.
Pro Tip 2/3Simplicity Context
'Meagre' can highlight the simplicity, to the point of being bare or minimal.
The room had only a bed and a table, its meagre furnishings.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Describing something as 'meagre' can imply disappointment or dissatisfaction.
He received a meagre amount of applause after his performance.
Pro Tip 1/3Insufficiency
Use 'meagre' to express that something is insufficient for needs or expectations.
Their meagre income could hardly cover the rent.
Pro Tip 2/3Simplicity Context
'Meagre' can highlight the simplicity, to the point of being bare or minimal.
The room had only a bed and a table, its meagre furnishings.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Describing something as 'meagre' can imply disappointment or dissatisfaction.
He received a meagre amount of applause after his performance.
Pro Tip 1/3Insufficiency
Use 'meagre' to express that something is insufficient for needs or expectations.
Their meagre income could hardly cover the rent.
Pro Tip 2/3Simplicity Context
'Meagre' can highlight the simplicity, to the point of being bare or minimal.
The room had only a bed and a table, its meagre furnishings.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Describing something as 'meagre' can imply disappointment or dissatisfaction.
He received a meagre amount of applause after his performance.
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What's a snollygoster? A...
power they didn't want to call him King in case that gave him ideas or his successor ideas so they wanted to give him the humblest meager most pathetic title they could think of and that title was president president they didn't invent the title I mean it existed before but it just meant somebody who
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Erika Pinheiro: What's...
So, it would make sense, as a start, to expand the refugee definition to include climate refugees, for example. But those of us in a position to advocate for those changes are too busy suing our government to keep the meager legal protections that refugees enjoy under the current law.
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Measuring immeasurable...
meager and unsatisfactory kind it may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science this quote really resonates with me because for the past decade I've been trying to take the measure of mysterious and unmeasurable
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
Now, that's the equivalent of a hot dog bun. Now, I would say that a hot dog bun is kind of a meager return for such a complicated and demanding behavior as sleep. So I'm less convinced by the energy conservation idea. But the third idea I'm quite attracted to,
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The myth of Loki’s...
and fearful recognition seized Odin's heart. Though these three were meager reflections of his dark dreams, the king was determined to dispose of them before his visions came true. First, he banished Jörmungandr to the sea at the edge of the world.
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My descent into...
Right after I was born, things got a little bit more difficult. They struggled to survive with raising a young family and a new business, often working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, taking on second and third jobs just to earn a meager living.
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Before Avatar ... a...
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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The 5 Musketeers Have an...
no they different as I said we're on the the sunrise Friday that doesn't look like they're ate last night all this morning or if they did it was something as meager as a scrub hill or a baby
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Savitri and Satyavan:...
Now Satyavan worked tirelessly to support their meager new life. His determination and devotion moved the princess.
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The Life Story...
from others it's a meager existence and the worst of the winter is still to come
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What's a snollygoster? A...
power they didn't want to call him King in case that gave him ideas or his successor ideas so they wanted to give him the humblest meager most pathetic title they could think of and that title was president president they didn't invent the title I mean it existed before but it just meant somebody who
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Erika Pinheiro: What's...
So, it would make sense, as a start, to expand the refugee definition to include climate refugees, for example. But those of us in a position to advocate for those changes are too busy suing our government to keep the meager legal protections that refugees enjoy under the current law.
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Measuring immeasurable...
meager and unsatisfactory kind it may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science this quote really resonates with me because for the past decade I've been trying to take the measure of mysterious and unmeasurable
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
Now, that's the equivalent of a hot dog bun. Now, I would say that a hot dog bun is kind of a meager return for such a complicated and demanding behavior as sleep. So I'm less convinced by the energy conservation idea. But the third idea I'm quite attracted to,
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The myth of Loki’s...
and fearful recognition seized Odin's heart. Though these three were meager reflections of his dark dreams, the king was determined to dispose of them before his visions came true. First, he banished Jörmungandr to the sea at the edge of the world.
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My descent into...
Right after I was born, things got a little bit more difficult. They struggled to survive with raising a young family and a new business, often working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, taking on second and third jobs just to earn a meager living.
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Before Avatar ... a...
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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The 5 Musketeers Have an...
no they different as I said we're on the the sunrise Friday that doesn't look like they're ate last night all this morning or if they did it was something as meager as a scrub hill or a baby
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Savitri and Satyavan:...
Now Satyavan worked tirelessly to support their meager new life. His determination and devotion moved the princess.
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The Life Story...
from others it's a meager existence and the worst of the winter is still to come
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
American Author
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.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
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.
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Alice Munro
Canadian Writer
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.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Indian Actor
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.
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Annie Lowrey
American Journalist
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.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
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'.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Algerian Politician
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.
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Shuji Nakamura
Japanese Physicist
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.
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Vijayashanti
Indian Actress
As an MP, I could hardly meet my constituents' genuine needs as the funds at an MP's disposal are meagre.
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James Cameron
American Director
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
American Author
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.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
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.
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Alice Munro
Canadian Writer
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.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Indian Actor
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.
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Annie Lowrey
American Journalist
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.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
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'.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Algerian Politician
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.
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Shuji Nakamura
Japanese Physicist
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.
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Vijayashanti
Indian Actress
As an MP, I could hardly meet my constituents' genuine needs as the funds at an MP's disposal are meagre.
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James Cameron
American Director
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
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