meager

Meanings

Adjective

• Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
• Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
• Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Verb

• To make lean.

Origin

• From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer ("meager, lean"), West Frisian meager ("meager"), Dutch mager ("meager"), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur,
• Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. maigre.