lavish vs meagre

lavish

adj
  • Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal. 

  • Superabundant; excessive. 

verb
  • To give out extremely generously; to squander. 

  • To give out to (somebody) extremely generously. 

meagre

adj
  • 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. 

  • Having little flesh; lean; thin. 

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

verb
  • To make lean. 

How often have the words lavish and meagre occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )