Definition of meager

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mea·ger also mea·gre    (mgr) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.
3. Having little flesh; lean.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English megre, thin, from Old French, from Latin macer; see mk- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
meager·ly(Adverb), meager·ness(Noun)