deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate

a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.

having little flesh; lean; thin

a body meager with hunger.

maigre.

adjective

adequate , large , liberal , plenty , substantial , sufficient , big , fat , full , wide

adjective

bare , barren , deficient , exiguous , flimsy , inappreciable , inconsiderable , infertile , insubstantial , insufficient , little , mere , minimum , miserable , paltry , puny , scant , scanty , scrimp , scrimpy , shabby , short , skimp , skimpy , slender , slight , spare , sparse , subtle , tenuous , too little too late , unfinished , unfruitful , unproductive , wanting , weak , angular , beanpole * , beanstalk , bony , broomstick , emaciated , gangling , gangly , gaunt , hungry , lacking , lank , lanky , lean , lithe , narrow , rattleboned , rawboned , scraggy , scrawny , skin and bones , skinny , slim , starved , stinted , stunted , underfed , willowy , withered , poor , stingy , thin , fleshless , twiggy , weedy , arid , feeble , infinitesimal , lenten , measly , small , sterile