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merriam webster
meager amount
Cantidad exigua
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meager adjective

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magro, flaco; exiguo, escaso, pobre

Example sentences of
meager adjective

  • •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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Synonyms of
meager adjective

scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, insufficient, inadequate, poor, thin

amount noun

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amounts
cantidad, suma

Example sentences of
amount noun

  • •What is the amount to be paid?
  • •The drug is not being produced in adequate amounts.
  • •An amount was finally agreed upon.
  • •The new law limits the amount a candidate can spend.
  • •When he died we found he owed money to the amount of $250,000!
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  • •He didn't lose a large amount of money.
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Synonyms of
amount noun

sum, number, aggregate, total, whole, quantity, entirety