meagre
Very small in amount and not enough.
meagre in a sentence
- Their meagre supper of one shared bread roll left everyone still hungry.
- The robin found only a meagre scattering of crumbs, far too little for a cold morning.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to meagre?
- Aplentiful
- Bscanty
- Cgenerous
- Dlarge
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B: scanty. The other three mean the opposite of meagre.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to meagre?
- Ascanty
- Bmeasly
- Clarge
- Dpoor
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C: large. The other three mean nearly the same as meagre.
Words that mean something similar
scanty, poor, measly
Words that mean the opposite
large, generous, plentiful
More words about size & amount
- mere: Nothing more than; only.
- miniature: Very small, like a tiny copy of something bigger.
- moderate: Neither too much nor too little, around the middle.
- monumental: Extremely large or important.
- morsel: A small piece of food.
- multitude: A very large number of people or things.
- notable: Important or interesting enough to be noticed and remembered.
- numerous: Very many in number.
More words to explore
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