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[ mˈiːɡə], [ mˈiːɡə], [ m_ˈiː_ɡ_ə]Table of Contents
Similar words for meager:- all (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- deficient (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- emaciated (adjective)
- exiguous (adjective)
- few (adjective)
- flimsy (adjective)
- frugal (adjective)
- gaunt (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- incomplete (adjective)
- infrequent (adjective)
- insignificant (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- jejune (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- lank (adjective)
- lanky (adjective)
- lean (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- little (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- measly (adjective)
- miniscule/minuscule (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- necessitous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- paltry (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- picayune (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- scant/scanty (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- skimpy (adjective)
- slender (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- sparse (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- thin (adjective)
- trivial (adjective)
- weightless (adjective)
- hand-to-mouth (noun)
- hardscrabble (noun)
- marginal (noun)
- meager (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Meager:
adj.
•all (adjective) •bare (adjective)- unembellished,
- literal,
- essential,
- bald,
- cold,
- basic,
- blunt,
- hard,
- sheer,
- modest,
- austere,
- simple,
- stark,
- severe,
- chaste.
- marred,
- impaired,
- outta gas,
- not make it,
- flawed,
- bad,
- damaged,
- faulty,
- second string,
- scarce,
- unequal,
- rarest,
- not enough,
- shy,
- not up to scratch,
- sketchy,
- amiss,
- found wanting,
- unsatisfactory,
- inferior,
- not cut out for,
- unassembled,
- defective,
- third string,
- second fiddle,
- injured,
- rare.
- miserly,
- time-saving,
- close,
- thrifty,
- efficient,
- canny,
- timesaving,
- prudential,
- practical,
- on the rims,
- penny-pinching,
- provident,
- frugal,
- tight,
- penny-wise,
- prudent,
- saving,
- chary,
- curmudgeonly,
- sparing,
- penurious,
- methodical,
- avaricious,
- watchful,
- pennywise,
- Skimping,
- closefisted,
- circumspect,
- work-saving,
- mean,
- money-saving,
- parsimonious,
- cost-effective,
- pennypinching,
- niggardly,
- unwasteful,
- Scrimping.
- cadaverous,
- haggard,
- pinched,
- consumptive,
- famished,
- skeletal,
- attenuated,
- wizened,
- peaked,
- wasted,
- anorexic,
- attenuate.
- semioccasional,
- middling,
- straggling,
- piddling,
- imperceptible,
- not too many,
- trifling,
- minority,
- occasional,
- Unfrequent,
- sporadic,
- minor,
- minute,
- few and far between,
- scattering,
- inconsiderable,
- few,
- not many,
- scarcely any,
- uncommon,
- widely spaced,
- some,
- less,
- inconsequential,
- seldom,
- scattered.
- frail,
- wobbly,
- unsubstantial,
- fragile,
- sleazy,
- tacky,
- shaky,
- superficial,
- gossamer,
- shallow,
- slapdash,
- infirm,
- rickety,
- transparent,
- gauzy,
- diaphanous,
- decrepit,
- feeble,
- delicate,
- unsound.
- de-solate,
- de solate,
- peakiest,
- more skeleton,
- scraggier,
- skin bones,
- peakier,
- most skeleton,
- forbidding.
- glitchest,
- bushleague,
- too little,
- in-adequate,
- in-aptest,
- in-competent,
- most stinted,
- incapable,
- in adequate,
- in-commensurate,
- glitcher,
- in aptest,
- in-capable,
- in appreciable,
- in capable,
- in apter,
- impotent,
- un productive,
- more lemon,
- more stinted,
- in-appreciable,
- most lemon,
- junkest,
- un qualified,
- in-apter,
- lemon,
- un-productive,
- minus,
- in commensurate,
- in competent,
- junker,
- un-qualified.
- Unexecuted,
- under construction,
- unconsummated,
- half done,
- half-done,
- Parter,
- fragmentary,
- Unaccomplished.
- in-significant,
- most minimal,
- more minim,
- in significant,
- most purportless,
- most minim,
- more purportless,
- meaningless,
- irrelevant,
- non essential.
- more hurting,
- more godawful,
- most god-awful,
- un-favorable,
- more god awful,
- most godawful,
- most god awful,
- un favorable,
- un-fortunate,
- most hurting,
- un fortunate,
- god awful,
- more god-awful.
- more beanstalk,
- most beanpole,
- most broomstick,
- more broomstick,
- more extenuated,
- most extenuated,
- more beanpole,
- stiltest,
- most beanstalk,
- stilter,
- gangling,
- stilt.
- more shadow,
- stickest,
- more sylphlike,
- in-fertile,
- un fruitful,
- most sylphlike,
- most shadow,
- in fertile,
- lean,
- un-fruitful.
- unheavy,
- Gossamery,
- Floatable,
- lithe,
- Imponderous,
- light-footed,
- weightless,
- tissuelike,
- frothy,
- lightest,
- featherweight.
- succinct,
- puny,
- compact,
- shrimpy,
- brief,
- not large,
- concise,
- under-sized,
- least,
- not big,
- mini,
- hardly any,
- junior,
- smallish,
- wee,
- snubber,
- Toyer,
- short.
- mere,
- unfruitful,
- scrimp,
- gangly,
- withered,
- insubstantial,
- tenuous,
- infertile,
- stunted,
- unproductive,
- underfed,
- scant,
- starved,
- beanpole,
- rattleboned,
- barren,
- scrawny,
- minimum,
- subtle,
- willowy,
- skimp,
- slim,
- weak,
- Stinted,
- lacking,
- unfinished,
- hungry,
- inappreciable.
- more pint sized,
- more smallscale,
- itsy bitsy,
- most small scale,
- pint sized,
- most itsy bitsy,
- small scale,
- more small-scale,
- most pint-sized,
- more pint-sized,
- more small scale,
- more itsybitsy,
- itsybitsy,
- most itsy-bitsy,
- most itsybitsy,
- smallscale,
- most pint sized,
- more itsy-bitsy,
- more miniscule,
- most smallscale,
- most small-scale,
- more itsy bitsy.
- de-testable,
- povertystricken,
- dis graceful,
- scurviest,
- scurvier,
- dis-graceful,
- de testable,
- poverty stricken.
- lank,
- measly,
- mingy,
- no fat,
- Unconsequential,
- slender,
- worse for wear,
- picayune,
- broomstick,
- like a bag of bones,
- wornout,
- papery,
- house of cards,
- infrequent,
- poler,
- pathetic,
- beside point,
- inadequate,
- twiglike,
- jejune,
- Non-essential,
- scrubby,
- miserable,
- scurvy,
- gaunt,
- gone to seed,
- poor,
- weedy,
- paltry,
- Unsufficient,
- skin and bones,
- godawful,
- scrimper,
- scanty,
- little,
- unpersuasive,
- peaky,
- rinkydink,
- lanky,
- narrow,
- sticker,
- lowdown,
- small,
- insignificant,
- skimpy,
- sylphlike,
- light,
- exiguous,
- skin-and-bones,
- lamentable,
- tatty,
- scraggy,
- scrimpy,
- itsy-bitsy,
- unornamented,
- slight,
- cut rate,
- dog-eared,
- emaciated,
- scraggiest,
- twiggy,
- Purportless,
- spare,
- pint-sized,
- low,
- bare,
- barely sufficient,
- Commiserable,
- small-scale,
- remote,
- beanstalk,
- low-down,
- thin as rail,
- reedy,
- lithesome,
- not worth mentioning,
- derisory,
- Stalky,
- chiffon,
- cut-rate,
- sparse,
- deficient,
- flimsy,
- undernourished,
- skeletonlike,
- atrophied,
- thin,
- humble,
- economical,
- gracile,
- light as a feather,
- in firm,
- shabby,
- god-awful.
- un-consequential,
- most derisory,
- more lowdown,
- in-effectual,
- more low-down,
- low down,
- more derisory,
- more unconsequential,
- most lowdown,
- most low down,
- in effectual,
- most unconsequential,
- un consequential,
- most low-down,
- more low down.
- Beggared,
- dirt poor,
- down and out,
- SUBPAR.,
- in need,
- stone broke,
- truly needy,
- flat broke,
- subnormal,
- in want,
- unprosperous,
- empty-handed,
- beggarly,
- poorer,
- Fortuneless,
- behind eight ball.
- most frayed,
- dis figured,
- more dog-eared,
- dogeared,
- be draggled,
- most dog-eared,
- more dogeared,
- dis-figured,
- dog eared,
- most degenerated,
- more dog eared,
- dis reputable,
- dis-reputable,
- most dog eared,
- more degenerated,
- de generated,
- motheaten,
- most deteriorating,
- most disfigured,
- more frayed,
- most dogeared,
- more disfigured,
- de-generated,
- be-draggled,
- more deteriorating,
- gone seed.
- bitty,
- minimal,
- microscopic,
- teeny-weeny,
- pocket,
- pocket-sized,
- petite,
- toy,
- nugatory,
- shrimper,
- baby,
- itty-bitty,
- weeny,
- dwarfish,
- teensy,
- miniature,
- bantam,
- teeny,
- shrimp.
- most diluted,
- un-persuasive,
- in-credible,
- un convincing,
- more unpersuasive,
- in conceivable,
- under-weight,
- stalkier,
- most weakkneed,
- under weight,
- most undernourished,
- polest,
- more weak kneed,
- un persuasive,
- most unpersuasive,
- reediest,
- stalkiest,
- in credible,
- more undernourished,
- un believable,
- most weak-kneed,
- more weakkneed,
- reedier,
- un tenable,
- weak kneed,
- un-convincing,
- more stretched,
- in-conceivable,
- under-nourished,
- more weak-kneed,
- under nourished,
- most twiglike,
- more twiglike,
- weakkneed,
- most stretched,
- un-tenable,
- un-believable.
n.
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- wanting.
Other synonyms:
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- Fleshless.
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- bony,
- rawboned,
- incomplete,
- skinny.
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- angular.
- cogitate,
- beneath notice,
- reduced,
- blemish,
- hollow,
- meanly,
- economy,
- close-fitting,
- short commons,
- fast day,
- runty,
- Blemishes,
- monotonous,
- forecast,
- defame,
- averagely,
- chintzy,
- footling,
- unvaried,
- infrequently,
- uncompleted,
- crude,
- lilliputian,
- fine,
- banyan day,
- Scrannel,
- gimcrack,
- predict,
- detract,
- angustiseptal,
- tender,
- destitution,
- Haggish,
- cheap,
- gawky,
- destitute,
- incipient,
- failing,
- slightly,
- thin person,
- shriveled,
- skin-deep,
- flat,
- worthless,
- affluence,
- sorry,
- frugality,
- indicate,
- assume,
- below the mark,
- quadragesima,
- barely,
- augur,
- trivial,
- hatchet-faced,
- somewhat,
- shrunk,
- frailty,
- sporadically,
- regard,
- thriftiness,
- infirmity,
- flat-chested,
- anticipate,
- undermanned,
- poor person,
- scotch,
- sterile,
- dwarf,
- rarely,
- backbite,
- lantern-jawed,
- languid,
- Lathy,
- moderate,
- sparingly,
- crowded,
- boney,
- in arrear,
- vapid,
- below par,
- conceive,
- poor man,
- lent,
- money,
- vile,
- gold,
- midget,
- nanoid,
- elfin,
- tightly,
- in default,
- impecunious,
- near,
- beginning,
- lenten,
- chinchy,
- angustirostrate,
- estimate,
- Putid,
- riches,
- Picayunish,
- anatomy,
- thinly,
- cramped,
- no great shakes,
- needy,
- slim down,
- qualified,
- seldom met with,
- spotty,
- cursory,
- frigid,
- colorless,
- naked,
- poorly,
- squat,
- reflect,
- malnourished,
- incommodious,
- vain,
- calculate,
- analysis,
- unprepared,
- cramp,
- shrivelled,
- inadequately,
- faint,
- lame,
- bland,
- enervated,
- Rudimental,
- firmly,
- Leanly,
- portend,
- indigent,
- rudimentary,
- worn,
- treasure,
- slimly,
- tolerable,
- slenderly,
- tame,
- strait,
- opulence,
- undersized,
- short rations,
- traduce,
- badly,
- fast,
- bode,
- washy,
- catchpenny,
- foretell,
- starveling,
- Dwarfed,
- contemptible,
- Angustifoliate,
- plain,
- feebleness,
- consider,
- prosaic,
- one-horse,
- narrow gauge,
- unimportant,
- starvation,
- seldom seen,
- necessitous,
- thrift,
- sprinkled,
- dumpy,
- rather,
- pauper,
- spindly,
- contempt,
- wealth,
- debility,
- trumpery,
- wretched,
- watery,
- beggar,
- somber,
- shrunken,
- undersize,
- impoverished,
- nastily,
- scantily,
- ragged,
- so-so,
- isthmian,
- Unnutritious,
- spidery,
- derivation,
- isthmic,
- starving,
- Depthless,
- announce,
- sparsely,
- straitened,
- prosy,
- cause,
- unworthy,
- reckon,
- abundance,
- trashy,
- parched,
- watered,
- circumscribed,
- underweight,
- think,
- origin,
- lukewarm,
- thin down,
- meagrely,
- presage,
- subsistence,
- Spindling,
- barely adequate,
- gimp,
- just,
- pygmy,
- Macilent,
- contemplate,
- scarcely,
- merely,
- wishy-washy,
- angustisellate,
- dry,
- Lankness,
- perfunctory,
- lack,
- constricted,
- lightly,
- halfway,
- imperfect,
- useless,
- dull,
- moneyless,
- failure,
- Proposing,
- fatless.
Paraphrases for Meager:
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Antonyms for Meager:
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adj.
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all
ample.
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deficient
faultless, excessive, superfluous, flawless, enough, perfect, satisfactory.
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economical
uneconomical, wasteful, careless, uncareful, expensive.
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emaciated
heavy, plump, overweight, overnourished.
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meager
full, substantial, large, fat, sufficient, plenty, liberal, big, adequate, wide.
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Other antonyms:
copious, bursting, teeming, flourishing, thriving, proliferative, swarming, rich, blooming.
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Homophones for Meager:
- megaera, maigre, manger, moneymaker, muncher, meagre, macer, make grow, mojarra, missouri, miser, measurer, Masora, masquer, mazer, manchuria, musher, monsieur, Masorah, masseur, moniker, make sure, major, monger, mouser, macro, mincer, mocker, menagerie, mauser, maseru, minicar, mascara, Mens Rea, menninger, Mesozoic Era, magyar, miscarry, mixer, mockery, Mick Jagger, massacre, money cowrie, measure, maker, muser, mimicker, massager, muscari, moocher, maiger, micro, mouse hare, mucor, masher, maser, mimicry, mouse ear, masker, manager, misery, manicure, mysore, magic square, makaira, mcgraw, mugger.