meager

Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.

Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble.

Having little flesh; lean.

To make lean.

Lean; thin; having little flesh.

Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.

Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.

Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.

Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.

Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.