meagerly

meagerly: I

adjective

deficient in amount or quality or extent

- meager resources

- meager fare

• Syn: ↑meager, ↑meagre, ↑stingy, ↑scrimpy

• Ant: ↑ample (for: ↑meager)

• Similar to:

↑bare, ↑scanty, ↑spare, ↑exiguous, ↑hand-to-mouth, ↑hardscrabble, ↑measly, ↑miserable, ↑paltry

• See Also: ↑insufficient, ↑deficient, ↑minimal, ↑minimum, ↑scarce

• Derivationally related forms: ↑meagreness (for: ↑meagre), ↑meagerness (for: ↑meager)

• Attrubites: ↑sufficiency, ↑adequacy

II

adverb

to a meager degree or in a meager manner

- these voices are meagerly represented at the conference

- the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources

• Syn: ↑sparingly, ↑slenderly, ↑meagrely

• Ant: ↑amply

• Derived from adjective: ↑slender (for: ↑slenderly), ↑sparing (for: ↑sparingly), ↑meager

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meagerly — adj. same as {meager}, 2. Opposite of {ample}. Syn: meager, meagre. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Meagerly — Mea ger*ly, Meagrely Mea gre*ly, adv. Poorly; thinly. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
meagerly — (adv.) also meagrely, 1580s, from MEAGER (Cf. meager) + LY (Cf. ly) (2) … Etymology dictionary
meagerly — adverb see meager … New Collegiate Dictionary
meagerly — See meager. * * * … Universalium
meagerly — adverb In a meager way; poorly; inadequately … Wiktionary
meagerly — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. scantily, skimpily, not much; see inadequately … English dictionary for students
meagerly — mÉªËgÉ™(r)lÉª adv. leanly, thinly; poorly; insufficiently, in a manner lacking amount or quantity (also meagrely) … English contemporary dictionary
meagerly — mea·ger·ly … English syllables
Meagrely — Meagerly Mea ger*ly, Meagrely Mea gre*ly, adv. Poorly; thinly. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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