meager

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

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

Verb

To make lean.

Conceptes

escàs

pobre

magre

gasiu

parc

🏞️

minso

raquític

avar

exigu

avariciós

estalviador

Oposat a

dense

Sinònims

meagre

lean

thin

poor

skinny

scanty

meagre

gaunt

wretched

skimpy

dismal

miserable

abject

scarce

scant

limited

exiguous

insufficient

sparse

stingy

few

🤏

pitiful

spare

scrawny

unenviable

forlorn

measly

little

mean

lacking

meagerly

half-empty

lank

squalid

scrimpy

incomplete

slender

slab sided

coarse food

lean diet

austere fare

avaricious

bare

bony

deficient

destitute

greedy

impoverished

in short supply

insubstantial

Traduccions

maigre

mager

schraal

pauvre

magro

mager

schamel

yetersiz

sprietig

escasso

misero

magro

ισχνός

misérable

miserabel

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈmiɡɚ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: megre

Cognat amb anglès antic: mæġer

Cognat amb frisó occidental: meager

Cognat amb neerlandès: mager

Cognat amb alemany: mager

Cognat amb islandès: magr

Cognat amb islandès: magur

Cognat amb noruec bokmål: mager

Cognat amb danès: mager

In summary

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur,
Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.