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Exiguous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXIG'UOUS, a. [L. exiguus.] Small; slender; minute; diminutive. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin exiguus, from exigere Date: 1651 excessively scanty ; inadequate <wrest an exiguous existence from the land> <exiguous evidence> • exiguously adverb • exiguousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. scanty, small. Derivatives: exiguity n. exiguously adv. exiguousness n. Etymology: L exiguus scanty f. exigere weigh exactly: see EXACT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Exiguous Ex*ig"u*ous, a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] ``Exiguous resources.'' --Carlyle. -- Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Small, diminutive, tiny, slender, slim, attenuated, fine.

Moby Thesaurus

Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, dwarfed, dwarfish, frugal, half-pint, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, knee-high, lean, 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, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, two-by-four, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery