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meagered | meagerer |

As a verb meagered

is past tense of meager.

As an adjective meagerer is

comparative of meager.

meagered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (meager)

  • 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

    * * ----

    meagerer

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (meager)