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Definition of Exiguous
1. Adjective. Extremely scanty. "An exiguous budget"
Definition of Exiguous
1. a. Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
Definition of Exiguous
1. Adjective. scanty; meager ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exiguous
1. meager [adj] - See also: meager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exiguous
Literary usage of Exiguous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1897)
"exiguous annuals. 4. ... from the base upward : valves firm-coriaceous,
striate-costate, tardily and often incompletely detached from the exiguous placente. ..."
2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1856)
"The exiguous five shillings would not run far enough, and so ten was proposed
for all future comers. Twenty pounds were voted for a reverend gentleman in ..."
3. Earthwork of England: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Mediæval by Arthur Hadrian Allcroft (1908)
"Primitive man was the best judge of his own requirement*!, and he may have been
quite as comfortable in a 4-foot pit as in those exiguous "mound-dwellings" ..."
4. The Roman: A Dramatic Poem by Sydney Dobell (1850)
"And shall we, friends, Shall we degrade the majesty of Learning Which I—which
I—her infinitesimal exiguous representative— Some. Bravo, Well said! Scio. ..."
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