Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery
mea·gre in AM, use meager disapproval If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meagre, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough. The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise. a meagre amount of food, money etc is too small and is much less than you need (maigre, from macer )