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meager - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
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meagre,
meagerly,
stingy,
scrimpy |
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ample affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply"
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deficient,
insufficient inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
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minimal,
minimum the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service"
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scarce deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
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adequacy,
sufficiency the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"
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bare,
scanty,
spare completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
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exiguous extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"
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hand-to-mouth
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hardscrabble barely satisfying a lower standard; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"
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measly,
miserable,
paltry contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
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