Hyphenation of meagerly

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word meagerly? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

mea-ger-ly

Definitions of meagerly:

1.	Deficient in amount or quality or extent Meager resources Meager fare
2.	To a meager degree or in a meager manner These voices are meagerly represented at the conference The area is slenderly endowed with natural resources

Synonyms of meagerly:

adj	meager, meagre, bare, scanty, spare, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, marginal, measly, miserable, paltry, insufficient, deficient, scarce
adv	sparingly, slenderly, meagrely

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.