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meager | poverty |

As an adjective meager

is having little flesh; lean; thin.

As a verb meager

is to make lean.

As a noun poverty is

the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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...}}

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    * meagerly * meagerness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make lean.
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    * * ----

    poverty

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty' line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the '''poverty''' barrier. But '''poverty'''’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own ' poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
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