meager

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
• adjective Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble.
• adjective Having little flesh; lean.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make lean.
• Lean; thin; having little flesh.
• Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.
• Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.
• Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.
• Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.
• Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.
• 2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.
• noun A sickness.
• noun Same as maigre, 2.
• noun A spent salmon, or kelt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To make lean.
• adjective Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
• adjective Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. Opposite of ample.
• adjective (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
• adjective less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adjective Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective deficient in amount or quality or extent