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Definition meager

Etymology

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??ros. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæ?er (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur and Danish mager.

Adjective

meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest) (American spelling)

1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
2. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
3. (set theory) 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. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Verb

meager (third-person singular simple present meagers, present participle meagering, simple past and past participle meagered)

1. (American spelling, transitive) To make lean.

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