Thursday, June 15, 2006

exiguous

Quick Definition: small in amount; minute
exiguous (ĭg-zĭg'yū-əs, ĭk-sĭg'-) pronunciation
adj.

Extremely scanty; meager.

[From Latin exiguus, from exigere, to measure out, demand. See exact.]

exiguously exig'uously adv.
exiguousness exig'uousness n.



exiguous

adjective

    Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy, thin. Slang measly. See big/small/amount, excess/insufficiency/enough.




exiguous
adj

Definition: scanty
Antonyms: plenty





exiguous

scanty in amount: meager



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The adjective exiguous has one meaning:

Meaning #1: extremely scanty




Translations for: Exiguous

Nederlands (Dutch)
schaars

Franais (French)
exigu

Deutsch (German)
adj. - klein, gering

ή (Greek)
adj. ό, ό

Italiano (Italian)
esiguo

Portugus (Portuguese)
adj. - escasso

Русский (Russian)
скудный, малый, незначительный

Espaol (Spanish)
adj. - exiguo, escaso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ringa, knapp

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
adj. - 稀少的, 些须的, 细小的

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
adj. - 稀少的, 些須的, 細小的

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 乏しい

العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) هزيل, ضئيل

עברית (Hebrew)‬
adj. - ‮מועט, זעום, זעיר‬




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