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Definition of Meagerly
1. Adjective. Deficient in amount or quality or extent. "Meager fare"
Attributes: Adequacy, Sufficiency
Also: Scarce, Minimal, Minimum, Deficient, Insufficient
Similar to: Bare, Scanty, Spare, Exiguous, Hand-to-mouth, Hardscrabble, Measly, Miserable, Paltry
Antonyms: Ample
Derivative terms: Meagerness, Meagreness
2. Adverb. To a meager degree or in a meager manner. "The area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"
Antonyms: Amply, Amply
Partainyms: Meager, Slender, Sparing
Definition of Meagerly
1. adv. Poorly; thinly.
Definition of Meagerly
1. Adverb. In a meager way; poorly; inadequately. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meagerly
1. meager [adv] - See also: meager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meagerly
Literary usage of Meagerly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"On the left, the heath is but meagerly skirted with wood. To make amends, however,
the cliffs of the Isle of Wight range beyond it in the distance. ..."
2. Postal Salaries: Hearings, Sixty-sixth Congress, First [second] Session by United States, Congress, Joint Commission on Postal Salaries (1920)
"He must be in the lead or among the leaders, and to do this he must be generous;
but how can he be generous or even give meagerly to all the calls made upon ..."
3. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"... literary instruction available to the people in the long period of the Kings
from Solomon onward, a period which otherwise was very meagerly supplied. ..."
4. Handbook on the Law of Judicial Precedents: Or, The Science of Case Law by Henry Campbell Black (1912)
"sl3 "The first of these cases is so meagerly reported that it is difficult to
... 818 'The case is meagerly reported; the opinion is also without argument. ..."
5. Summer Homes and Camps: Containing Suggestions, Hints, and Practical Ideas by Frank Townsend Lent (1899)
"It would be safe to say that architects are nearly as meagerly informed as their
clients. It is a rare thing to find either architect or client possessing ..."
6. On the Classification of the Early Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian Formations by Roland Duer Irving (1888)
"(4) To establish general correlations when such correlations are based upon
meagerly developed faunas or upon a few obscure forms belonging to types of ..."
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