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exiguous
/ ˌɛksɪˈɡjuːɪtɪ; ɪkˈsɪɡ-; ɪɡˈzɪɡjʊəs /
adjective
- scanty or slender; meagre
an exiguous income
Derived Forms
- exiguity, noun
- exˈiguously, adverb
Other Words From
- ex·i·gu·i·ty [ek-si-, gyoo, -i-tee], ex·igu·ous·ness noun
- ex·igu·ous·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of exiguous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of exiguous1
Example Sentences
Now in its 84th impression in Spanish, it remains a fixture on the exiguous shelves devoted to Latin America in bookshops in Europe and the United States.
Beecroft's rationale for proposing a whole series of changes weakening employment protection was the assertion, offered without evidence, that workers use their exiguous protections to get away with working below capacity.
Elizabeth is effectively obliterated and yet one immediately recognises her from this exiguous after-image.
He sat down on one of the specially designed artistic chairs of the Associated Booksellers' Trading Union and produced an exiguous lady's handkerchief, extraordinarily belaced.
To extend these limits, which confined in so exiguous a compass our therapeutic agents, has been the laborious and singular study of Hahnemann and his disciples.
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