All 4 Uses of
meager
in
Lonesome Dove
- After all, the pigs might come along and eat the hat, which was one of the solidest comforts in his meager existence.†
Chpt 3-4 *meager = lacking in quantity or quality
- They had gone to sleep in the wagon's meager shade; the shade had moved, but not the Irishmen.†
Chpt 13-14
- His style was extravagant and his resources meager.†
Chpt 15-16
- Roy Suggs methodically tore the tent apart and poked through all the men's meager belongings, hoping to find valuables.†
Chpt 70-71
Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.