meager
adjective
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate.
meagerness
-
a word derived from
meager.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2021
“From a Low and Quiet Sea,” a new novel by Donal Ryan, is so exquisitely rendered, with raw anguish sublimated into lyrical prose, that you sometimes overlook the meagerness of its slice-of-life offerings.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2018
There is a fine line between elegant simplicity and mere meagerness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
His frustration at the meagerness of his thanks was like the small but constant whine of a gnat in his thoughts.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
