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• exiguous• in short• in shorthand• meager• meagre• scanty• scarce• scrimpy• skimpy• sparse -
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• exiguous• in short• in shorthand• meager• meagre• scanty• sparse -
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adj.exiguous, meager, small, in short supply.* * *► adjetivo1 (pequeño) small, tiny, slight2 (escaso) scanty, meagre (US meager)* * *ADJ1) [cantidad] meagre, meager (EEUU)2) [objeto] (=pequeño) tiny* * ** * *= meagre [meager, -USA], skimpy [skimpier -comp., skimpiest -sup.].Ex. Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.Ex. Often times new graduate job-seekers produce skimpy resumes because they fail to include all of their relevant experience.----* con medios muy exiguos = on a shoestring (budget).* con un presupuesto muy exiguo = on a shoestring (budget).* presupuesto exiguo = shoestring budget.* * ** * *= meagre [meager, -USA], skimpy [skimpier -comp., skimpiest -sup.].Ex: Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
Ex: Often times new graduate job-seekers produce skimpy resumes because they fail to include all of their relevant experience.* con medios muy exiguos = on a shoestring (budget).* con un presupuesto muy exiguo = on a shoestring (budget).* presupuesto exiguo = shoestring budget.* * *‹salario› meager*, paltry, exiguous ( frml); ‹cantidad› triflingla empresa mantiene hoy una exigua plantilla de trabajadores these days the firm maintains a very small workforce* * *
exiguo,-a adjetivo minimal, trifling, meager: con la exigua pensión apenas tenía para comer, her meager pension barely provided enough to eat
' exiguo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
exigua
English:
meager
- meagre
* * *exiguo, -a adj[ración, sueldo] meagre; [espacio] tiny;un presupuesto cada vez más exiguo a dwindling budget;una exigua mayoría a wafer-thin majority* * *adj meager, Brmeagre* * *: meager
См. также в других словарях:
Exiguous — Ex*ig u*ous, a. [L. exiguus.] Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] Exiguous resources. Carlyle. {Ex*ig uous*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
exiguous — index minimal, slight Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
exiguous — scanty, 1650s, from L. exiguus small, petty, paltry, scanty in measure or number, from exigere (see EXACT (Cf. exact)) … Etymology dictionary
exiguous — *meager, scant, scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, spare, sparse Analogous words: diminutive, tiny, *small, little: tenuous, slender, slight, *thin: limited, restricted, confined (see LIMIT vb) Antonyms: capacious, ample … New Dictionary of Synonyms
exiguous — [adj] scanty bare, confined, diminutive, inadequate, limited, little, meager, narrow, negligible, paltry, petty, poor, restricted, skimpy, slender, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, tiny; concepts 771,789 Ant. plenty … New thesaurus
exiguous — ► ADJECTIVE formal ▪ very small. ORIGIN Latin exiguus scanty … English terms dictionary
exiguous — [eg zig′yo͞o əs, igzig′yo͞o əs] adj. [L exiguus, small < exigere: see EXACT] scanty; little; small; meager exiguity [ek΄sə gyo͞o′ə tē] n … English World dictionary
exiguous — exigent, exiguous Neither word is common in ordinary usage and both are marked ‘formal’ in the COD (2006). Both are related to Latin exigere in its two meanings ‘to enforce payment of’ and ‘to weigh exactly’. Exigent corresponds to the first of… … Modern English usage
exiguous — adjective Etymology: Latin exiguus, from exigere Date: 1651 excessively scanty ; inadequate < wrest an exiguous existence from the land > < exiguous evidence > • exiguously adverb • exiguousness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
exiguous — 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}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [1913 Webster] Meager… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
exiguous — exiguity /ek si gyooh i tee/, exiguousness, n. exiguously, adv. /ig zig yooh euhs, ik sig /, adj. scanty; meager; small; slender: exiguous income. [1645 55; < L exiguus scanty in measure or number, small, equiv. to exig(ere) (see EXIGENT) + uus… … Universalium
