Crossword-Solution: MEAGER 6 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Meager a. Alt. of Meagre
Meager v. t. Alt. of Meagre

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MEAGER anagram GRAEME, MEAGRE

We have 50 clues for the answer “MEAGER”

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Word from the Latin for "lean" 1 answer
What Père Grandet's subsistence was. 1 answer
Under quota, say 1 answer
Scrimpy or skimpy 1 answer
Having little flesh 1 answer
On the scant side 1 answer
Inadequate in quantity 1 answer
Insufficient in amount 1 answer
Inadequately small 1 answer
Deficient in amount 1 answer
Like slim pickings 2 answers
"Too little ___." 2 answers
Opposite of ample 2 answers
Poor in quality. 2 answers
Hardly plentiful 3 answers
Hardly enough 3 answers
Hardly sufficient 4 answers
Barely sufficient 6 answers
exiguous 9 answers
A PALTRY WAGE 10 answers
AN ATTRIBUTE THAT IS INADEQUATE OR DEFICIENT 10 answers
AMOUNT PALTRY 10 answers
skimpy 12 answers
Barely adequate 14 answers
Piddling 20 answers
inappreciable 20 answers
Hardly any 22 answers
Far apart 22 answers
Unsubstantial 31 answers
Gangling 44 answers
Bony 46 answers
Sparse 52 answers
Angular. 53 answers
Emaciated 56 answers
frugal 60 answers
Slim __ 64 answers
Deficient 65 answers
Scanty 67 answers
Spare 67 answers
Paltry 73 answers
Scant 75 answers
insufficient 78 answers
Lean 78 answers
insubstantial 81 answers
Wanting 82 answers
Thin __ 87 answers
Inadequate 89 answers
Poor 92 answers
Slight 101 answers
Mean 110 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MEAGER (5)

Curtains of grass and bamboo covered the windows, and, most arduous task of all, with his meager assortment of tools he had fashioned lumber to neatly seal the walls and ceiling and lay a smooth floor within the cabin.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Other than meager unsubstantiated circum- stantial evidence, though, there was still no convincing legal connection between Miles Foster and the Spook.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
That he had been born in Africa and educated in Paris was about all she knew, and this meager information had been the result of her surprise that an Englishman should speak English with such a marked French accent.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
For all his inherited size and strength he was, after all, only a little boy—a frightened, homesick little boy—reasoning faultily from the meager experience of childhood.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Wealthy by inheritance, he had chosen the field of education for his life work solely from a desire to be of some material benefit to mankind since the meager salary which accompanied his professorship was not of sufficient import to influence him in the slightest degree.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

Quotes with MEAGER (3)

Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Pe…
Philippe Claudel Brodeck
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water — other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)
Confucius
Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain, You, at least, hail me and speak to me While a thousand others ignore my face. You offer me an hour of love, And your fees are not as costly as most. You are the madonna of the lonely, The first-born daughter in a world of pain. You do not turn fat men aside, Or trample on the stuttering, shy ones, You are the meadow where desperate men Can find a moment's comfort. Men have paid more to their wives To know a bit of peace And could…
James Kavanaugh There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 85 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).