meagre

Meanings

Plural: meagres

Adjective

• deficient in amount or quality or extent

Noun

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

Adj

• Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
• Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
• Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Verb

• To make lean.

Synonyms

inadequate, meager, meagerly, paltry, salmon-basse, scanty, scrimpy, shade-fish, stingy, stone basse

Antonyms

ample

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