Meaning of EXIGUOUS
| Pronunciation: | | ig'zigyoous
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| | Definition: | | [adj] extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget" |
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| | Synonyms: | | meager, meagerly, meagre |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*ig"u*ous\, a. [L. exiguus.]
Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] ``Exiguous
resources.'' --Carlyle. -- {Ex*ig"uous*ness}, n. [R.]
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| | Related Terms: | | abstemious, ascetic, austere, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, dwarfed, dwarfish, frugal, half-pint, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, knee-high, lean, Lenten, limited, little, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, one-horse, paltry, parsimonious, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smallish, spare, sparing, sparse, Spartan, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, two-by-four, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery |
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