Reverse Dictionary: MEAGRE

ADJECTIVES
► ANOREXIC lacking substance or body; skimpy, meagre, insubstantial → 1979
► ARM-GAUNT slender as the arm; lean; meagre → a1616 obs.
► BALD bare or destitute of meaning or force; lacking in vividness of description; meagre, trivial, paltry → 1362
► CARRION-LEAN meagre, very deficient → 1581 obs.
► CHINTZY meagre, scanty, insufficient → 1967 Amer. dial.
► EKEN lean, thin, meagre → 1908 Sc.
► FAT AS A HEN’S FOREHEAD, AS thin; small; meagre → 1939 Amer. dial.
► HALF-FACED thin-faced; hence, meagre; thin; imperfect → 1592
► LENTEN such as is appropriate to Lent; hence of provisions, diet, etc.: such as may be used in Lent, meagre; of clothing, expression of countenance, etc.: mournful-looking, dismal → 1577-87 obs.
► MEAGRY having a meagre appearance → 1603 obs.
► PEELIE meagre, thin → 1845 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRAE ► SKRAE spare, meagre, lean → 1846 Sc.
► SCRANNY thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRANNY-LOOKING thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → 1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRIMY meagre, skimpy → 1943 Amer. dial.
► SILLY scanty, sorry, meagre, poor → 1593 obs.
► SKIMP scanty; meagre → 1775
► SKIMPY scanty, meagre; stinted or stunted in some respect → 1847
► THURDLED meagre → 1892 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► JEJUNELY meagrely, insipidly → 1615

NOUNS
► EGESTUOSITY meagreness, poverty → 1656 obs.
► JEJUNENESS 1. deficiency of physical substance; thinness, meagreness, attenuation → 1626
2. emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagreness, poverty → 1655
► JEJUNITY emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagreness, poverty → 1623
► PARCITY scantiness, meagreness, smallness → 1509 obs.

PHRASES
► LIKE AN OWL IN AN IVY BUSH simile for a meagre or weasel-faced man with very bushy hair → 1738