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Faintly vs Meager - What's the difference?

faintly | meager |

As an adverb faintly

is in a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.

As an adjective meager is

having little flesh; lean; thin.

As a verb meager is

to make lean.

faintly

English

Adverb

(head)
  • In a faint manner; very quietly or lightly.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

    • meager

    English

    (wikipedia meager)

    Alternative forms

    * meagre (Commonwealth English)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  • Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
    • A meager piece of cake in one bite.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1607 , author=Thomas Walkington , title=The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ... , page=54 citation , passage=...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1637 , author=William Shakespeare , title=The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke ... , page=E5 citation , passage=Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * meagerly * meagerness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make lean.

    • Anagrams

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