careless vs meager

careless

adj
  • Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. 

  • Not concerned or worried (about). 

meager

adj
  • Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent 

  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To make lean. 

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