Difference between Meager and Hardscrabble

MEAGER vs HARDSCRABBLE: NOUN

Barely adequate
Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble.
Having little flesh; lean.
Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. Opposite of ample.
Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
Less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
Deficient in amount or quality or extent

Of a bare living gained by great labor
Yielding little by great labor
Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal.
Of or pertaining to land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive.
Barely satisfying a lower standard

To make lean.
Lean; thin; having little flesh.
Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.
Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.
Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.
Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.
Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.
2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.

Modest, Hand to mouth, Scrimpy, Spare, Hardscrabble, Ungenerous, Bare, Exiguous, Marginal, Stingy, Miserable, Scanty, Meagre, Measly, Paltry

Ramshackle, Suburbanized, Grimy, Workaday, Desolate, Bucolic, Impoverished, Backwoods, Gritty, Unfruitful, Marginal, Meagre, Meagerly, Meager, Poor

Modest, Scrimpy, Hand to mouth, Spare, Hardscrabble, Ungenerous, Bare, Exiguous, Marginal, Stingy, Miserable, Scanty, Meagre, Measly, Paltry

Downtrodden, Ramshackle, Suburbanized, Grimy, Workaday, Desolate, Bucolic, Impoverished, Backwoods, Gritty, Unfruitful, Marginal, Meagre, Meager, Poor

Virgil First Raise wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana, hungover and badly beaten.
But he spoke for the hardscrabble families who eked out a living far from commercial markets.
Little kids from out in the valley went to other small schools, like and Hardscrabble.
Each man led a pack animal laden with the tools of their hardscrabble trade.
Villegas, had a 15-under 265 total on the Hardscrabble Country Club course.
His road had been a hardscrabble one from the very beginning.
Packers were just another hardscrabble team on the brink of bankruptcy.
Life on a hardscrabble farm in Garza county, mostly fondly remembered.
Berserkly hardscrabble blossom is accepting materialistically beside the rigid saneness.
Hardscrabble Roots Prepared Him for His Medicaid Mission.