Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Meager.
4 letter answer(s) to meager
LEAN
cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the baniste
POOR
lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"
deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
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SLIM
being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"
take off weight
5 letter answer(s) to meager
SCANT
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
limit in quality or quantity
Little
skimpy
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
6 letter answer(s) to meager
SCANTY
lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
SKIMPY
containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
Of clothes, light & revealing
SPARSE
not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
quality of being thinly dispersed
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