| 单词 | meager |
| 释义 | mea·ger or mea·gre 1. < meager were his looks, sharp misery had worn him to the bones — Shakespeare > 2. a. < a meager harvest > < stretching a meager salary > b. of verbal expression 3. < chalk feels meager > 4. Synonyms: < meager crops of rye, buckwheat, and potatoes scarcely provide a living for the inhabitants — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > < scientists with poor laboratories and meager salaries — W.A.Noyes b.1898 > < the child-mind is as yet too meagre in life-experience to confront the human enterprise — H.A.Overstreet > scanty describes that which is barely adequate in quantity, size, extent, or degree or which only approaches adequacy < the hunted wild beasts can live on scanty rations, going for days at a time without a mouthful — American Guide Series: Arizona > < such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything — Charles Dickens > scant may indicate a falling or cutting short, sometimes by design, of what is desired or desirable < where precipitation was too scant to support a solid earth covering — R.A.Billington > < savage people, huge in form, fierce in manner, and wearing scant clothing of skins — A.C.Whitehead > < most of the colonies gave them scant welcome, and many persecuted them — W.L.Sperry > skimpy and scrimpy may imply niggardliness as a cause of smallness or inadequacy, the former perhaps arising from stinginess, the latter from necessitous parsimony < the meal set before us upon our return to the Bear's Paw, tired and hungry, was a decidedly skimpy table d'hôte lunch — A.W.O'Neil > < the drab routine and skimpy meanness of the New England farm — V.L.Parrington > < the guests ate in silence, murmured with their food, were exceedingly well bred — more proud of their breeding than they were of the scrimpy, almost stingy respectability of the ménage — W.A.White > exiguous describes a scanty smallness making whatever is under consideration compare most unfavorably with others of its kind < in conditions the whole region, except for the river valleys that cross it, can support only a sparse and exiguous population who have little encouragement to cultural progress and have in fact remained backward — V.G.Childe > spare may indicate a falling short of adequacy without, however, specific connotations, especially depreciatory ones < argument was spare and simple: surely the United States would not let a stout ally down in its hour of need — Time > sparse implies thinness or lack of normal or hoped for thickness or density, with or without being therefore inadequate or insufficient < the cays were little more than heaps of rock and sand, covered with coarse grass and a sparse growth of bush and stunted trees — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > |
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