Crossword-Solution: MEAGRE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meagre | a. | Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. |
| Meagre | a. | 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. |
| Meagre | a. | Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. |
| Meagre | v. t. | To make lean. |
| Meagre | n. | A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MEAGRE | anagram | GRAEME, MEAGER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with MEAGRE (5)
Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.
Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.
Chauvelin was now sitting close to the table; he had taken off his hat, and Marguerite could just see the outline of his thin profile and pointed chin, as he bent over his meagre supper.
But I managed to run along the corridor in the direction I had been going in my pursuit of them far enough to be without the radius of their meagre light as they emerged from the cell.
But even this meagre satisfaction was soon to be denied him, for presently the flier commenced to sag toward the port and by the bow.
Quotes with MEAGRE (3)
EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbour's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bun…
Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for inst…
Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).