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meagerly

/ˈmiɡɝli/ adv

In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.

Word Origin From Latin macer 'thin, lean' (PIE *makro-). Meager means thin, scanty, and meagerly is the adverb. The root gives us meager, meagerness, emaciate, emaciation. The morpheme breakdown meager+ly.

adv In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.

The refugees were meagerly supplied with food and water.

(副词) 贫乏地；不足地；微薄地

难民们的食物和水供应严重不足。

(adverbio) escasamente; pobremente; insuficientemente; mísamente; mediocremente [De manera escasa; pobremente; inadecuadamente.]

Los refugiados fueron abastecidos de forma insuficiente con comida y agua.

(adverbe) chichement; maigrement; insuffisamment; médiocrement; parcimonieusement [De façon maigre ou insuffisante ; médiocrement, chichement.]

Les réfugiés étaient meagerly approvisionnés en nourriture et en eau.

(Adverb) kärglich; dürftig; spärlich [auf karge, unzureichende oder armselige Weise; knapp bemessen.]

Die Flüchtlinge wurden **meagerly** mit Nahrung und Wasser versorgt.

(副詞) 乏しく；不十分に；貧弱な様子で

難民たちはわずかな食料と水しか支給されなかった。

(advérbio) escassamente; pobremente; inadequadamente [De maneira escassa; pobremente; inadequadamente.]

Os refugiados foram pobremente abastecidos com comida e água.

Synonyms: scantily sparsely barely minimally insufficiently poorly Antonyms: abundantly copiously generously richly
Word parts: meager + ly

Related words

meagerness emaciate emaciation

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