different between meager vs meare

English

Alternative forms

• meagre (Commonwealth English)

Etymology

From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæ?er (“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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mi??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mi???/
• Rhymes: -i???(?)
• Hyphenation: mea?ger

Adjective

meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest) (American spelling) (Canadian spelling, common)

1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
2. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

   Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate, measly

   A meager piece of cake in one bite.
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).

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

• meagerly
• meagerness

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: mawga

Translations

Verb

meager (third-person singular simple present meagers, present participle meagering, simple past and past participle meagered)

1. (American spelling, transitive) To make lean.

Anagrams

• Graeme, meagre

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *m?ger, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós.

Adjective

meager

1. skinny, not well fed
2. lean, lacking in fat

Inflection

Further reading

• “meager”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Noun

meare (plural meares)

1. Obsolete form of mere. [14th-18th c.]
2. Obsolete form of mare. [14th-16th c.]

Adjective

meare

1. Obsolete form of mere. [16th-17th c.]

Anagrams

• Ameer, ameer, ramee, reame

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin me?re, present infinitive of me? (“I go along”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?a.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: meà?re

Verb

meàre (first-person singular present mèo, first-person singular past historic meài, past participle meàto, auxiliary essere)

1. (intransitive, poetic, obsolete) to filter through

   Synonym: trapelare

Conjugation

References

• meare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

me?re

1. present active infinitive of me?
2. second-person singular present passive imperative of me?
3. second-person singular present passive indicative of me?

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæ???.re/

Noun

m?are

1. dative singular of mearh

Spanish

Verb

meare

1. First-person singular (yo) future subjunctive form of mear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) future subjunctive form of mear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) future subjunctive form of mear.