The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to “Insufficient in quantity”, 6 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : MEAGER
meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy – a
deficient in amount or quality or extent; “meager resources”; “meager fare”
SYNONYMS
exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy
IN A SENTENCE
Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.
We’ll have to do the best we can with this year’s meager harvest.
She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.
They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.
Although she’s now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.
ETYMOLOGY
late 14c., megre (late 12c. as a surname), “lean, thin, emaciated” (of persons or animals), from Old French megre, maigre “thin” (12c.), from Latin macrum (nominative macer) “lean, thin” (source of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian magro), from PIE root *mak- “long, thin.” Compare emaciate.
Of material things (land, food, etc.) from early 15c. Cognate Germanic words (Old Norse magr “thin,” Old High German magar, German mager, Middle Dutch magher, Dutch mager, Old English mæger) come directly from the PIE root via Proto-Germanic *magras and are not from Latin.
More Clues
- SCANTY Insufficient in quantity
- NOT ENOUGH Insufficient in quantity
- MEAGRE Deficient in quantity
- MEAGER Deficient in amount
- ALBINO Deficient in pigmentation
- PALLID Deficient in color
- DARKER More deficient in light
- LACKED Was deficient in
- PALEST Most deficient in color
- LACKEY To be deficient in early extremes for a liveried manservant
- SLACKS To be deficient in a ship can be wearing!
- DESERT Name an area quite deficient in moisture
- RAN SHORT Became insufficient in supply
- RUNS SHORT Becomes insufficient in supply
- UNDERDOG Expected loser to be insufficient in the tail area?
- ARTIC Vehicle in polar region deficient in cold
- LACK Are deficient in
- WANT Be deficient in
- LACKS Wants, is deficient in
- UNAESTHETIC Deficient in tastefulness or beauty
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