"meager" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈmiɡɚ/ [General-American], /ˈmiːɡə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-meager.wav [US] Forms: meagerer [comparative], meagerest [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*meh₂ḱ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|megre}} Middle English megre, {{der|en|xno|megre}} Anglo-Norman megre, {{der|en|fro|maigre}} Old French maigre, {{der|en|la|macer}} Latin macer, {{der|en|ine-pro|*mh₂ḱrós}} Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, {{cog|ang|mæġer||meager, lean}} Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), {{cog|fy|meager||meager}} West Frisian meager (“meager”), {{cog|nl|mager||meager}} Dutch mager (“meager”), {{cog|de|mager}} German mager, {{cog|is|magr}} Icelandic magr, {{cog|is|magur}} Icelandic magur, {{cog|nb|mager}} Norwegian Bokmål mager, {{cog|da|mager}} Danish mager, {{doublet|en|maigre}} Doublet of maigre Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} meager (comparative meagerer, superlative meagerest)
  1. Having little flesh; lean; thin. Tags: Canada, US, common Translations (lean): ضَئِيل (ḍaʔīl) (Arabic), hubený (Czech), mager (Dutch), magra (Esperanto), laiha (Finnish), maigre (French), მჭლე (mč̣le) (Georgian), გამხდარი (gamxdari) (Georgian), mager (German), ισχνός (ischnós) (Greek), magro (Italian), macer (Latin), kōhoka (Maori), mager (Norwegian), magro (Portuguese), macru (Romanian), худо́й (xudój) (Russian), то́щий (tóščij) (Russian), mager (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-meager-en-adj-hU83CC07 Disambiguation of 'lean': 77 23 0 0
  2. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent Tags: Canada, US, common Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate, measly Translations (poor, deficient or inferior): ubohý (Czech), mizerný (Czech), nedostačující (Czech), mager (Dutch), schamel (Dutch), niukka (Finnish), maigre (French), pauvre [masculine] (French), ღარიბი (ɣaribi) (Georgian), გალეული (galeuli) (Georgian), უქონელი (ukoneli) (Georgian), mager (German), ισχνός (ischnós) (Greek), πενιχρός (penichrós) [masculine] (Greek), λιγοστός (ligostós) [masculine] (Greek), γλίσχρος (glíschros) [masculine] (Greek), macer (Latin), mager (Norwegian), pukrich (Plautdietsch), pobre (Portuguese), ску́дный (skúdnyj) (Russian), бе́дный (bédnyj) (Russian), ми́зерный (mízernyj) (Russian), pobre (Spanish), escaso (Spanish), deficiente (Spanish), мізе́рний (mizérnyj) (Ukrainian), убо́гий (ubóhyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-meager-en-adj-phvuu3nk Categories (other): West Frisian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of West Frisian entries with incorrect language header: 2 23 9 30 1 33 2 Disambiguation of 'poor, deficient or inferior': 7 84 5 5
  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. Tags: Canada, US, common Categories (topical): Set theory
    Sense id: en-meager-en-adj-9G3QBMi0 Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory
  4. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). Tags: Canada, US, common Categories (topical): Mineralogy
    Sense id: en-meager-en-adj-mQ4kYtMd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, West Frisian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 29 14 54 2 Disambiguation of West Frisian entries with incorrect language header: 2 23 9 30 1 33 2 Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: meagre [Commonwealth] Derived forms: meagerly, meagerness

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmiɡɚ/ [General-American], /ˈmiːɡə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-meager.wav [US] Forms: meagers [present, singular, third-person], meagering [participle, present], meagered [participle, past], meagered [past]
Rhymes: -iːɡə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*meh₂ḱ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|megre}} Middle English megre, {{der|en|xno|megre}} Anglo-Norman megre, {{der|en|fro|maigre}} Old French maigre, {{der|en|la|macer}} Latin macer, {{der|en|ine-pro|*mh₂ḱrós}} Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, {{cog|ang|mæġer||meager, lean}} Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), {{cog|fy|meager||meager}} West Frisian meager (“meager”), {{cog|nl|mager||meager}} Dutch mager (“meager”), {{cog|de|mager}} German mager, {{cog|is|magr}} Icelandic magr, {{cog|is|magur}} Icelandic magur, {{cog|nb|mager}} Norwegian Bokmål mager, {{cog|da|mager}} Danish mager, {{doublet|en|maigre}} Doublet of maigre Head templates: {{en-verb}} meager (third-person singular simple present meagers, present participle meagering, simple past and past participle meagered)
  1. (American spelling, transitive) To make lean. Tags: US, transitive
    Sense id: en-meager-en-verb-nCf~bQI6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: meagre [Commonwealth]

Adjective [West Frisian]

Etymology: From Old Frisian *māger, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Etymology templates: {{inh|fy|ofs|*māger}} Old Frisian *māger, {{inh|fy|gem-pro|*magraz}} Proto-Germanic *magraz, {{inh|fy|ine-pro|*mh₂ḱrós}} Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós Head templates: {{head|fy|adjective}} meager Inflection templates: {{fy-infl-adj}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], meager [adverbial, positive, predicative], meagerder [adverbial, comparative, predicative], it meagerst [adverbial, predicative, superlative], it meagerste [adverbial, predicative, superlative], meagere [common-gender, indefinite, positive, singular], meagerdere [common-gender, comparative, indefinite, singular], meagerste [common-gender, indefinite, singular, superlative], meager [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], meagerder [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], meagerste [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], meagere [indefinite, plural, positive], meagerdere [comparative, indefinite, plural], meagerste [indefinite, plural, superlative], meagere [definite, positive], meagerdere [comparative, definite], meagerste [definite, superlative], meagers [partitive, positive], meagerders [comparative, partitive], - [partitive, superlative]
  1. skinny, not well fed
    Sense id: en-meager-fy-adj-piKGF5E2 Categories (other): West Frisian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of West Frisian entries with incorrect language header: 2 23 9 30 1 33 2
  2. lean, lacking in fat
    Sense id: en-meager-fy-adj-y82u9p8~

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for meager meaning in All languages combined (18.6kB)

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          "_dis1": "77 23 0 0",
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          "lang": "Maori",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A meager piece of cake in one bite."
        },
        {
          "text": "The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ..., page 54",
          "text": "...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1637, William Shakespeare, The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke..., page E5",
          "text": "Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 26",
          "text": "Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.",
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          "word": "paltry"
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        {
          "word": "scanty"
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        {
          "word": "inadequate"
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        {
          "word": "measly"
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "ubohý"
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        {
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "mizerný"
        },
        {
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          "code": "cs",
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          "word": "nedostačující"
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          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
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        {
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "schamel"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "niukka"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "maigre"
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        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pauvre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ɣaribi",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "ღარიბი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "galeuli",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "გალეული"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ukoneli",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "უქონელი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "mager"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ischnós",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "ισχνός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "penichrós",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "πενιχρός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ligostós",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "λιγοστός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "glíschros",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "γλίσχρος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "macer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "mager"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "pukrich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "pobre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "skúdnyj",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "ску́дный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bédnyj",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "бе́дный"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 84 5 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "mízernyj",
          "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
          "word": "ми́зерный"
        },
        {
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        {
          "text": "A meager piece of cake in one bite."
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        {
          "text": "The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1607, Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ..., page 54",
          "text": "...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1637, William Shakespeare, The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke..., page E5",
          "text": "Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Huang Chin-shing, Business as a Vocation: The Autobiography of Wu Ho-Su, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 26",
          "text": "Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.",
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          "word": "scanty"
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          "word": "inadequate"
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          "word": "measly"
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        "Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk)."
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      "ipa": "/ˈmiːɡə/",
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      "code": "ar",
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      "word": "ضَئِيل"
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      "sense": "lean",
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      "word": "mager"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "word": "magra"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "lean",
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "mč̣le",
      "sense": "lean",
      "word": "მჭლე"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "gamxdari",
      "sense": "lean",
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "mager"
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "ischnós",
      "sense": "lean",
      "word": "ισχνός"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "lean",
      "word": "magro"
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "mi",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "word": "ubohý"
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      "word": "mizerný"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "word": "nedostačující"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "schamel"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "niukka"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "code": "ka",
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      "word": "ღარიბი"
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      "roman": "galeuli",
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      "word": "გალეული"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
      "word": "უქონელი"
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "el",
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      "code": "el",
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      "code": "la",
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      "code": "pdt",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "ми́зерный"
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      "code": "es",
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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
      "word": "escaso"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "poor, deficient or inferior",
      "word": "deficiente"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "code": "uk",
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}

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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meagerste",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meagere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meagerdere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meagerste",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meagers",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meagerders",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "partitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "partitive",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "meager",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "fy-infl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "West Frisian",
  "lang_code": "fy",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "skinny, not well fed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "skinny",
          "skinny"
        ],
        [
          "fed",
          "feed"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lean, lacking in fat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lean",
          "lean"
        ],
        [
          "lack",
          "lack"
        ],
        [
          "fat",
          "fat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meager"
}

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