bare-boned vs meagre

bare-boned

adj
  • slim; not fleshy; very lean; emaciated 

  • Very basic; having only the essentials and nothing else. 

meagre

adj
  • Having little flesh; lean; thin. 

  • Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent 

  • Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk). 

  • Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible. 

verb
  • To make lean. 

noun
  • Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae. 

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