meagre

C2 Topic:Animals

US /ˈmiːɡɚ/ See IPA manual

Freq #40161

Meanings

1

noun
An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.

1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
2

adj
Having little flesh; lean; thin.

[…]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:.
3

adj
Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
4

verb
To make lean.

I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · an edible fish, of species... salmon-basseshadefishstone basse

3 adj · deficient or inferior in... inadequate paltry scanty

Word family

Forms meagreness

Derived forms comeagremeagrelymeagreness

Etymology

From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).

Topics

Animals

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# meagre

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun, adj, verb
**IPA (US):** /ˈmiːɡɚ/
**Frequency rank:** 40161

## Meanings
1. An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
2. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
3. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
4. To make lean.

## Examples
- 1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
- […]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:.
- Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
- I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.

## Derived Forms
- comeagre
- meagrely
- meagreness

## Etymology
From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).

## Topics
- Animals

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