meagre UK /ˈmiːɡə/US /ˈmiːɡəɹ/adjective 4noun 1verb 1forms 5 adjective4 •Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extentNothing will grow in this meagre soil.He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite. •Having little flesh; lean; thin.[…]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: — 1591 •Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. •Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). noun1 •An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts. — 2008 verb1 •To make lean. formsmeagred · meagring · meagres · meagrer · meagrest