different between meagrer vs meager

English

Adjective

meagrer

1. comparative form of meagre: more meagre

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