meager

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

magro

misero

miserabile

meschino

povero

insufficiente

scarno

avaro

amer. per meagre

bomba

💣

esiguo

scarso

carente

Opposto di

dense

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

maigre

mager

schraal

pauvre

mager

schamel

sprietig

magro

escasso

yetersiz

schunnig

belabberd

🤢

dürftig

ισχνός

misérable

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈmiɡɚ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: megre

Affine inglese antico: mæġer

Affine frisone occidentale: meager

Affine olandese: mager

Affine tedesco: mager

Affine islandese: magr

Affine islandese: magur

Affine norvegese bokmål: mager

Affine danese: 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.