exiguous
a . 稀少的,些須的,細小的
稀少的,些須的,細小的
exiguous adj 1 :
extremely scanty ; "
an exiguous budget "
Meager \
Mea "
ger \,
Meagre \
Mea "
gre \,
a . [
OE .
merge ,
F .
maigre ,
L .
macer ;
akin to D . &
G .
mager ,
Icel .
magr ,
and prob .
to Gr .
makro `
s long .
Cf . {
Emaciate }, {
Maigre }.]
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1 .
Destitue of ,
or having little ,
flesh ;
lean .
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Meager were his looks ;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones . --
Shak .
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2 .
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 ;
as ,
meager resources ;
meager fare .
Opposite of {
ample }. [
WordNet sense 1 ] [
Narrower terms : {
exiguous }]
[
Narrower terms : {
hardscrabble ,
marginal }] [
Narrower terms : {
measly ,
miserable ,
paltry }] "
Meager soil ."
--
Dryden .
Syn :
meagre ,
meagerly ,
scanty .
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Of secular habits and meager religious belief .
--
I .
Taylor .
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His education had been but meager . --
Motley .
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3 . (
Min .)
Dry and harsh to the touch ,
as chalk .
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4 .
less than a desirable amount ; --
of items distributed from a larger supply . [
WordNet sense 2 ]
Syn :
scrimpy ,
skimpy ,
skimping .
[
WordNet 1 .
5 ]
Syn :
Thin ;
lean ;
lank ;
gaunt ;
starved ;
hungry ;
poor ;
emaciated ;
scanty ;
barren .
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Meager
Exiguous \
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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74 Moby Thesaurus words for "
exiguous ":
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
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