meagreness

  • 31meagerness — (n.) also meagreness, early 15c., from MEAGER (Cf. meager) + NESS (Cf. ness) …

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  • 32meagerness — mea·ger·ness || miːgÉ™(r)nɪs n. poorness; scantiness; condition of being insufficient (also meagreness) …

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  • 33meagre — (US meager) adjective 1》 lacking in quantity or quality. 2》 (of a person or animal) lean; thin. Derivatives meagrely adverb meagreness noun Origin ME: from OFr. maigre, from L. macer …

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  • 34deficiency — n. 1. Want, lack, defectiveness, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, meagreness, dearth, scarcity, shortage, deficit. 2. Failing, failure, frailty, infirmity, imperfection, foible, fault, error, weakness, weak side, blind side …

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  • 35emaciation — n. Leanness, lankness, meagreness, wasting away, pining away, tabes, tabefaction …

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  • 36lankness — n. Leanness, thinness, slimness, meagreness, slenderness, attenuation, gauntness, emaciation …

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  • 37marcidity — n. Leanness, meagreness, thinness, emaciation …

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  • 38meanness — n. 1. Humbleness, lowness. 2. Smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness, rudeness. 3. Abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness. 4. Illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness,… …

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  • 39poverty — n. 1. Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances. 2. Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism. 3. Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness. 4. Paucity …

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  • 40scantiness — n. Insufficiency, meagreness, narrowness, deficiency, short supply, short measure …

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