meagerly

1. Deficient in amount or quality or extent (synset 300107268)
   "meager resources"; "meager fare"
   also:

   • scarce - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
   • minimal, minimum - the least possible
   • deficient, insufficient - of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
   tells us about: adequacy, sufficiency - the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
   similar to:

   • bare, scanty, spare - lacking in magnitude or quantity
   • exiguous - extremely scanty
   • hand-to-mouth - providing only bare essentials
   • hardscrabble - barely satisfying a lower standard
   • measly, miserable, paltry - contemptibly small in amount
   same as: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy

1. To a meager degree or in a meager manner (synset 400398603)
   "these voices are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"
   same as: meagrely, slenderly, sparingly

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