meager
adjEtymology
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.
Definitions
Having little flesh
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- A meager piece of cake in one bite.
- The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
- ...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, ...
Of a set
Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
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Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
To make lean.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at meager. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at meager. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at meager
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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