meager

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

escasso

miserável

magro

pobre

lastimável

insuficiente

coitado

mesquinho

exígua

avaro

raro

descarnado

parco

exíguo

avarento

Oposto de

dense

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

maigre

mager

pauvre

schraal

mager

magro

schamel

yetersiz

sprietig

misero

magro

miserabel

dürftig

belabberd

🤢

ισχνός

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmiɡɚ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: megre

Cognato com inglês arcaico: mæġer

Cognato com frísio ocidental: meager

Cognato com holandês: mager

Cognato com alemão: mager

Cognato com islandês: magr

Cognato com islandês: magur

Cognato com bokmål norueguês: mager

Cognato com dinamarquês: 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.