Meagre

Quick meaning: Meagre is a noun meaning An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.

Meaning

An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.

More Meanings

1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
3. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
4. (transitive) To make lean.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

His education had been but meagre.

Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.

He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.

[…]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:

Word Forms

• meagres
• meagrer
• meagrest
• meager
• meagring
• meagred

Synonyms for meagre

Depending on context, synonyms include paltry, scanty, inadequate, meager, miserable, marginal.

Antonyms for meagre

Common opposites include ample.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include measly, hardscrabble, meager, paltry, exiguous, scanty.

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