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  1. Thin

    lank, lanky, gaunt, starved, emaciated, lean, bony, slender, slim, spare, little, sparing, bare, scant, stinted, lacking, wanting, niggard, scraggy, scrawny, withered, wandlike, willowlike, willowy, lithe, narrow, tenuous, slightly-made, skinny, weedy*, peaked; see also thin 2, 4.

    Antonyms fat*, plump, stout.

  2. Scanty

    scanty, short, deficient, insufficient; see inadequate 1, scanty, wanting. See syn. study at scanty.

See meager in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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