meager

C2 大学 FREQ #27062

a. 质量差的, 贫乏的, 不毛的, 瘦的

发音

US /ˈmiɡɚ/
UK /ˈmiːɡə/

词形变化

meagered meagering meagers 三单 meagers meagering 现在分词 meagered 过去式 meagered 过去分词 meagerer 比较级 meagerer meagerest meagerest 最高级

别名

meagre

教材释义与例句

形容词

贫乏的；瘦的

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make lean.

    加拿大 美国 及物
adj. C2
  1. 1.

    Having little flesh; lean; thin.

    加拿大 美国
  2. 2.

    Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

    加拿大 美国

    A meager piece of cake in one bite.

    The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

  3. 3.

    Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.

    加拿大 美国 数学
  4. 4.

    Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

    加拿大 美国 化学 地质

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

stingy meagre scrimpy

反义词 1

ample

近义相关 9

spare miserable bare measly paltry exiguous hand-to-mouth hardscrabble scanty

参见 5

minimum scarce minimal insufficient deficient

词源

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur, Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.

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