Meagreness, n.
1. Leanness, thinness, spareness. 2. Poorness, barrenness, sterility. 3. Scantiness, barrenness, smallness. Meal, n.
1. Repast, collation. 2. Flour, grain in powder. Mealy, a. Farinaceous.
Mean, a.
1. Middle, medium, average, moderate. 2. Intermediate, intervening, coming between. 3. Ignoble, plebeian, low, ordinary, common, vulgar, coarse, humble. 4. Base, abject, grovelling, vile, contemptible, despicable, servile, beggarly, sneaking, dirty, scurvy, shabby,
sorry, disingenuous, unfair, rascally, pitiful, base-minded, low-minded, dishonorable, spiritless. 5. Sordid, penurious, miserly, stingy, niggardly, illiberal, ungenerous, selfish, narrow, mercenary, narrow-
minded, parsimonious. 6. Small, little, paltry, insignificant, diminutive, petty, poor, wretched, contemptible, despicable. Mean, n.
1. Medium, mediocrity, moderation, measure, middle state, middle course. 2. Average. 3. Instrument, method, mode, way, means, agency, instrumentality, measure.
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