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exiguous    
a. 稀少的,些须的,细小的

稀少的,些须的,细小的

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.
[1913 Webster] 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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