🇬🇧🇪🇸 meagre - pobre : English Lesson

Meaning of "meagre" ("pobre"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Meagre means very small, tiny, or not enough, especially when you were hoping for more. If you expect a big slice of cake and get only a crumb, that crumb is a meagre piece of cake.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I tried to build a pillow fort, but with my meagre two pillows, it looked more like a sad, lumpy speed bump.

I wrote a meagre two-word essay: “I tried.” My teacher wrote a meagre two-word comment: “Try harder.”

The meagre crowd at my magic show was just my mom, my goldfish, and a very unimpressed houseplant.

The wizard’s meagre beard was just three lonely hairs bravely trying to look majestic.

Some people spell it “meagre” and some say “meager,” but no matter how you spell it, it still sadly describes my meagre collection of cookies: one crumb and a suspicious raisin.

A cold night, a boy stared at a meagre bowl of soup, a meagre slice of bread, a meagre lamp, and his meagre coin. He wrapped a meagre blanket tighter, then split the bread with a shivering dog. The dog licked his hand; the boy smiled, feeling less alone and warmed by a small glow.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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