Meager | Mean of meager in English Dictionary

/ˈmiːgɚ/

• very small or too small in amount
1. Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.
2. We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.
3. meager wages
4. She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.
• not having enough of something (such as money or food) for comfort or happiness
1. They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.
2. Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.