Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being meager; leanness; poorness; scantiness; barrenness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
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- noun US The state of being
meager .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being meager
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Examples
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The next rains are not expected until April, by which time the meagerness of the harvest will be felt intensely by the people living in this region -- there will, once again, be hunger and starvation.
David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation David Weiss 2012
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The Libya campaign also exposed the meagerness of European weapon stockpiles.
The Lesson of Libya 2011
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We are unjust people (having imaginary arguments strikes me as a bit lacking in proportion, not so mention meagerness of world), and so we are continually confused into failing to give unto each thing its due.
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And another thing they learned was that it was easier for one who has gorged at the flesh-pots to content himself with the meagerness of a crust, than for one who has known only the crust.
Chapter XXV 2010
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Although Johanna is aware of the meagerness of Georgia's allowance, she feels that the recent precipitous expansion of the neighborhood doll-housing market, coupled with the effects of informational asymmetries—namely, that Georgia can't really add yet—are enough to justify the risk.
Report on the Recent Piggybanking Crisis Eric Hague 2011
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The next rains are not expected until April, by which time the meagerness of the harvest will be felt intensely by the people living in this region -- there will, once again, be hunger and starvation.
David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation David Weiss 2012
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And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity.
Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality Marilynne Robinson 2010
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They are free of the meagerness and nasty tannins that can beset lackluster Bordeaux years.
A Refreshing Bordeaux Peter Hellman 2010
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They are free of the meagerness and nasty tannins that can beset lackluster Bordeaux years.
A Refreshing Bordeaux Peter Hellman 2010
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These situations reveal the meagerness of my character.
VII Kyle Muntz 2010
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