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Meager vs. Meagre

Difference Between Meager and Meagre

Meager

Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
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Meagre

(of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality
they were forced to supplement their meagre earnings
a meagre diet of bread and beans
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Meager

Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble
the meager soil of an eroded plain.
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Meagre

a large predatory marine fish of the drum family, found in the Mediterranean, eastern Atlantic, and south-western Indian Ocean. It is an important food fish in southern Africa.
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Meager

Having little flesh; lean.
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Meagre

Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
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Meager

Having little flesh; lean; thin.
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Meagre

Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble
the meager soil of an eroded plain.
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Meager

Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
A meager piece of cake in one bite.
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Meagre

Having little flesh; lean.
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Meager

(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.
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Meagre

Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
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Meager

(mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
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Meagre

Having little flesh; lean; thin.
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Meager

To make lean.
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Meagre

Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
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Meager

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
Meager were his looks;Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
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Meagre

(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.
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Meager

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; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of ample.
Of secular habits and meager religious belief.
His education had been but meager.
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Meagre

(mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
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Meager

Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
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Meagre

(transitive) To make lean.
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Meager

less than a desirable amount; - of items distributed from a larger supply.
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Meagre

A large European sciænoid fish (Sciæna umbra or Sciæna aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
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Meager

To make lean.
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Meagre

deficient in amount or quality or extent;
meager resources
meager fare
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Meager

deficient in amount or quality or extent;
meager resources
meager fare
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Meager

barely adequate;
a meager allowance
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