meagre

Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmiːɡɚ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Middle French maigre.

Noun

meagre (plural meagres)

1. An edible fish, Argyrosomus regius.

Synonyms

• salmon-basse
• shade-fish
• stone basse

Translations

fish

• Danish: almindelig ørnefisk (da) c
• Dutch: ombervis (nl)
• Estonian: kotkaskala (et)
• Finnish: kotkakala (fi)
• French: maigre (fr) m

• German: Adlerfisch (de) m
• Italian: bocca d'oro (it) f
• Portuguese: corvina (pt) f
• Russian: обыкновенный (ru) (obyknovennyj) серебристый (ru) (serebristyj) горбыль (ru) (gorbylʹ) m
• Spanish: corvina (es) f, bocca d'oro (es) f
• Swedish: havsgös (sv) c

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer.

Alternative forms

• meager (US)

Adjective

meagre (comparative meagrer, superlative meagrest)

1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.

   A meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.

Translations

Having little flesh; lean; thin.

• Breton: treut (br)

• Russian: худой (ru) (xudoj), тощий (ru) (toščij)
• Spanish: enjuto (es)

Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying

• Russian: скудный (ru) (skudnyj), бедный (ru) (bednyj), недостаточный (ru) (nedostatočnyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: mager (nl), karig (nl), schraal (nl)
• French: maigre (fr)
• German: mager (de)
• Hungarian: sovány (hu)

• Italian: magro (it) m, scarno (it) m, esiguo (it) m
• Manx: thanney (gv)
• Scottish Gaelic: lom (gd)
• Spanish: exiguo (es)

Derived terms

• meagrely
• meagreness

Verb

meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred)

1. (transitive) To make lean.
   • Sir Robert Thomas Wilson

     I am meagred to a skeleton.

Anagrams

• Graeme
• meager