Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
A meager piece of cake in one bite.
Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”),...
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