meagreness Definition

meagre
meager
adj meagrer, meagrest, meagerer, meagerest

1. Lacking in quality or quantity; inadequate; scanty.

Thesaurus: scanty, inadequate, deficient, wanting, insubstantial, insufficient, negligible, slight, forgettable, exiguous; Antonym: substantial, plentiful.
2. Said of a person: thin, especially unhealthily so.

Thesaurus: thin, gaunt, lean, starved, emaciated, bony, slim, puny, scrawny, skinny; Antonym: fat, plump, stout.

Derivative: meagrely
adverb

Derivative: meagreness
noun

Etymology: 14c: from French maigre thin, from Latin macer lean.