meagerness

meagerness: n

1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness, pokiness, Inf. chintziness; shabbiness, Sl. crumminess, Sl. lousiness, Sl. rottenness; beggarliness, miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess.

2. leanness, thinnesss, skinniness, lankness, lankiness; gauntness, scragginess, scrawniness; boniness, spindliness.

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Meagerness — Mea ger*ness, Meagreness Mea gre*ness, n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness. Syn: meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
meagerness — index austerity, dearth, deficiency, deficit, immateriality, insufficiency, poverty Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton … Law dictionary
meagerness — (n.) also meagreness, early 15c., from MEAGER (Cf. meager) + NESS (Cf. ness) … Etymology dictionary
meagerness — noun see meager … New Collegiate Dictionary
meagerness — See meagerly. * * * … Universalium
meagerness — noun The state of being meager … Wiktionary
meagerness — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Lack] Syn. scarcity, aridity, need; see lack 1 , poverty 2 . 2. [Dullness] Syn. flatness, tedium, sameness; see boredom , dullness 1 , monotony 1 , slowness 1 … English dictionary for students
meagerness — meaÂ·gerÂ·ness || miËgÉ™(r)nÉªs n. poorness; scantiness; condition of being insufficient (also meagreness) … English contemporary dictionary
meagerness — mea·ger·ness … English syllables
meagerness — noun the quality of being meager an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes George Eliot • Syn: ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness, ↑exiguity • Derivationally related f … Useful english dictionary

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