meager

About 2.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having little flesh; lean; thin.
2. adjective Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

   A meager piece of cake in one bite.

3. adjective Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
4. adjective Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
5. verb To make lean.

Similar words

exiguous scrimpy scanty spare paltry hand-to-mouth stingy ungenerous miserable bare

Often followed by

and resources income living results in to salary wages

Word family

meagerly meagerness meagernesses meagre