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meager
/ˈmiːɡə/
verb
To make lean.
adjective
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
"A meager piece of cake in one bite."
Similar: inadequate, measly, paltry, scanty
Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
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