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adjective

meager adjective

magro, flaco; exiguo, escaso, pobre

•Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.
•We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.
•She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.
•They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.
•Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.
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scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, insufficient, inadequate, poor, thin

Meager, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, insufficient, inadequate significan que no alcanza el nivel de lo normal, necesario o deseable.

Meager indica la ausencia de elementos, cualidades o cantidades necesarias para la riqueza, la sustancia o la potencia de algo <a meager income>.
antonyms: ample, copious
Scant, scanty sugieren quedarse corto de lo que se desea, especialmente en cantidad o extensión <a scant three gallons> <supplies too scanty to last the winter>.
Skimpy suele connotar mezquindad o penuria como causa de la deficiencia <she was wearing a skimpy bikini>.
Spare puede connotar el no llegar a alcanzar un número o nivel adecuado, o simplemente la ausencia de superfluidad <a spare, concise style of writing>.
antonyms: profuse
Sparse connota un esparcir fino de unidades <a sparse population>.
antonyms: dense
Insufficient connota ser falto de poder, competencia o capacidad adecuada <insufficient funds to keep the office open>.
Inadequate connota no ser suficiente o suficientemente bueno <trying to work with inadequate information>.
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magro - lean (of meat), meager

flaco - thin, skinny, feeble, weak

exiguo - meager, paltry, scanty, trifling

escaso - scarce, scant, sparse

pobre - poor, impoverished, unfortunate, weak, deficient

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