exiguous \ ig-ZIG-yoo-uhs, ik-SIG- \, adjective;
1.scanty; meager; small; slender: exiguous income .
Quotes:
His exiguous nautical pension is hardly enough to pay for the one cockroach infested room which he inhabits in the slum area behind Tatwig Street...
-- Lawrence Durrell, "Justine ," 1957
There is an exiguous anthropological plot, concerning some papers improperly filched from a dying missionary, and an even more exiguous adulterous plot.
-- A.S. Byatt, "Barbara Pym," Passions of the Mind , 1991
Origin:
Exiguous is related to the term exigent and comes from the Latin word exiguus meaning "scanty in measure or number."
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