Meagre is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MEAGRE in dictionary:

VERB:
• To make lean.
NOUN:
• a large Mediterranean food fish, also MAIGRE
• A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
• Mediterranean fish
ADJECTIVE:
• inadequate, also MEAGER
• (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality
• (of a person or animal) lean; thin
• scanty or insufficient
• Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
• Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.
• Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
• deficient in amount or quality or extent

Words related to MEAGRE

meager9 meagerly14 meagrely14 meagreness13 meagrer10 meagres10 meagrest11 measly11

Words that contain MEAGRE

meagrer10 meagres10 meagrely14 meagrest11 meagreness13 meagrenesses15

How to use MEAGRE in a sentence

• Wilks opened his eyes sharply and beheld the meagre figure of Mrs.
• But a package of letters had been discovered among the meagre belongings of the unfortunate man, and these had placed the matter in a very different light.
• It was a bare and meagre life, he deemed, and not to be compared to the one to which he had become used.
• A sordid, harsh, and meagre life it must have been.
• And yet I can hardly convey to you the why of this, except by dry details as to the contours of her lofty brow, meagre lips, pointed chin, and ashen cheeks.
• The next person who presented himself was a little, meagre, thin looking man, with a dry, serious air about him, that seemed to mark him as a kind of curiosity in his way.
• But suppose he should never live to tell the tale? He was lost, far from any habitation, and with only enough food for a most meagre breakfast.
• His cracked voice suited his sour face, meagre look, and magpie eyes of no particular color.
• This is obviously nothing but a mere and meagre fiction, invented to explain the origin of the primeval ocean.
• To this last proposal, in order not to refuse a meagre measure of justice, I consented under protest.
• With regard to those who were suffering on a sick bed, with but slender hopes of recovery, my powers of consolation were even more meagre.
• She gets to talking to them, and asks about their homes, and one little child leads her to a meagre, little, grassy hut in which her sick sister is lying.
• Instead, he saw a six-windowed house, huddled among neighbours of its kind, with the family wash fluttering between meagre bushes.
• This ceremony over, they returned to the house of the Green Wolf, where a supper, still of the most meagre fare, was set before them.
• Strenuous efforts are put forth to revive it, but their success is meagre.
• A meagre breakfast of herbs was set out on the table, and a brand new scourge lay somewhat ostentatiously beside the platter.
• Not so, said Palomides, for I am meagre, and have been long sick for the love of La Beale Isoud, and therefore I will repose me till I have my strength again.
• There has been no other great belief in the world that ever left such poor and meagre monuments of its past splendor.
• Only on low and meagre grounds, where the tree grows less luxuriantly and strong, can six feet by six be reckoned a proper distance.
• All this time Constance, in ignorance of everything except the absolute truth, sat in the meagre room of the little stone hotel.
• While this is only a meagre portion of his interesting story, it was considered at the time sufficient to identify him should the occasion ever require it.
• The first effort at a fresh start tried to explain everything rather one-sidedly out of the meagre knowledge of the body.
• The old fireplace had been blocked up, and in its place was the usual iron cooking-stove, with a meagre array of pots and pans hanging behind it.

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