6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
adjective deficient in amount or quality or extent
originFrom Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0