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What is the adjective for meagreness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs meager and meagre which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

meager
  1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  2. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
  3. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
  4. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
  5. Synonyms:
      6. scanty, scant, sparse, paltry, scarce, small, insufficient, inadequate, poor, skimpy, measly, inconsiderable, slight, exiguous, deficient, insubstantial, slim, stingy, slender, spare, light, little, sparing, short, inappreciable, skimp, wanting, weak, miserable, puny, mean, flimsy, derisory, bare, tenuous, minimum, shabby, barren, scrimpy, unfinished, unproductive, subtle, mere, infertile, scrimp, unfruitful, bitty, lacking, stinted, stunted … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light.”
      “The person whom I thus encountered was a man of meager build, sloping shoulders, and handsome but painfully pinched features.”
meagre
  1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
  3. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
  4. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
  5. Synonyms:
      6. inadequate, insubstantial, little, paltry, scant, small, spare, deficient, poor, scanty, skimpy, slender, slight, sparse, insufficient, limited, modest, pathetic, puny, restricted, lean, measly, negligible, short, beggarly, exiguous, miserable, miserly, pitiful, piddling, scrimpy, stingy, meager, scarce, minimal, insignificant, trifling, inconsiderable, nominal, inappreciable, sparing, slim, light, low, tiny, derisory, thin, trivial, skimp, inconsequential … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.”
      “Why should Tim Healy make a fuss about a meagre matter of two hundred pounds?”
      “The principles of a morality construed in terms of a theory of recognition only have a meagre chance of being realized in the social lifeworld.”
meagry
  1. (rare, archaic) Meager looking.
meagrer
  1. comparative form of meagre: more meagre
  2. Synonyms:
      3. less, paltrier, scanter, smaller, sparer, poorer, scantier, skimpier, slenderer, slighter, sparser, punier, leaner, measlier, shorter, beggarlier, miserabler, pitifuller, stingier, more inadequate, more insubstantial, more deficient, more insufficient, more limited, more modest, more pathetic, more restricted, more negligible, more exiguous, more miserly, meagerer, scarcer, more minimal, more insignificant, more trifling, more inconsiderable, more sparing, slimmer, lower, lighter, tinier, more derisory, more trivial, more skimp, thinner, more wanting, more inconsequential, more lacking, mingier, more piffling … more
meagerer
  1. comparative form of meager: more meager
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scantier, scanter, sparser, paltrier, scarcer, smaller, poorer, skimpier, measlier, slighter, slimmer, stingier, slenderer, sparer, lighter, less, shorter, weaker, miserabler, punier, meaner, flimsier, barer, shabbier, barrener, subtler, merer, bittier, more insufficient, more inadequate, more inconsiderable, more exiguous, more deficient, more insubstantial, more sparing, more skimp, more wanting, more derisory, more tenuous, more unproductive, more infertile, more scrimp, more unfruitful, more lacking, more stinted, more stunted, skinnier, scrawnier, bonier, leaner … more
meagrest
  1. superlative form of meagre: most meagre
  2. Synonyms:
      3. least, paltriest, scantest, smallest, sparest, poorest, scantiest, skimpiest, slenderest, slightest, sparsest, puniest, leanest, measliest, shortest, beggarliest, miserablest, pitifullest, stingiest, most inadequate, most insubstantial, most deficient, most insufficient, most limited, most modest, most pathetic, most restricted, most negligible, most exiguous, most miserly, meagerest, scarcest, most minimal, most insignificant, most trifling, most inconsiderable, most sparing, slimmest, lowest, lightest, tiniest, most derisory, most trivial, most skimp, thinnest, most wanting, most inconsequential, most lacking, mingiest, most piffling … more
meagerest
  1. superlative form of meager: most meager
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scantiest, scantest, sparsest, paltriest, scarcest, smallest, poorest, skimpiest, measliest, slightest, slimmest, stingiest, slenderest, sparest, lightest, least, shortest, weakest, miserablest, puniest, meanest, flimsiest, barest, shabbiest, barrenest, subtlest, merest, bittiest, most insufficient, most inadequate, most inconsiderable, most exiguous, most deficient, most insubstantial, most sparing, most skimp, most wanting, most derisory, most tenuous, most unproductive, most infertile, most scrimp, most unfruitful, most lacking, most stinted, most stunted, skinniest, scrawniest, boniest, leanest … more
meagered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of meager
meagering
  1. present participle of meager
meagred
  1. simple past tense and past participle of meagre
meagring
  1. present participle of meagre
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