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Definition of Meagerness
1. Noun. The quality of being meager. "An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Wateriness, Abstemiousness, Spareness, Sparseness, Sparsity, Thinness
Derivative terms: Exiguous, Lean, Lean, Lean, Meager, Meagre, Poor, Poor, Scanty, Scant
Definition of Meagerness
1. n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Definition of Meagerness
1. Noun. (American English) The state of being meager. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meagerness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meagerness
Literary usage of Meagerness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History and Progress of Education, from the Earliest Times to the Present by Linus Pierpont Brockett, Henry Barnard (1860)
"meagerness of instruction in them.—Scarcity of parchment and papyrus.—Palimpsests.
THE toleration of Christianity (AD 311), and its subsequent establishment ..."
2. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1921)
"There is a certain kind of meagerness in the evidence of his identity and the
sceptic might well say that this meagerness is not much in favor of casual ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1843)
"In another place he says,— " The English word priest is used in consequence of
the meagerness of our language, as the translation of the two Greek words ..."
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