English to French Meaning of exiguous - exigu

Exiguous :

exigu

adjective

maigre, exigu, très peu, mince, moins, peu, petit, médiocre, lumière, ordinaire, négligeable, pauvre, court, faible, misérable

Exiguous :: exigu

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Definitions of exiguous in English

Adjective(1) extremely scanty

Examples of exiguous in English

(1) Even the clouds glimpsed in crevices between buildings above Wall Street are sliced into exiguous triangles.(2) So the charge made for the accommodation during her lifetime was the nominal charge referable to her exiguous state retirement pension.(3) Given these exiguous resources, Faulkner's political achievements down to the end of 1973 were not inconsiderable.(4) A lot of the fun of reading these papers is seeing how an exiguous collection of commitments plays out in so many different domains.(5) The second one is that the relatively exiguous constraints on some obnoxious weapons are useless when an occupying power decides that it is at war with a population.(6) My, you gave me an exiguous amount of time to answer that!(7) But this spareness is as nothing compared with the artistic exiguity of the proceedings.(8) But such inventive embellishments, like the cape on a juvenile murderer, merely stress the exiguity under the panoply.

Related Phrases of exiguous

(1) exiguous ::

exigu

Related Phrases of exiguous

(1) exiguous ::

exigu

Synonyms

Adjective

1. meager ::

maigre

2. inadequate ::

inadéquat

3. insufficient ::

insuffisant

4. small ::

petit

5. scanty ::

maigre

6. paltry ::

dérisoire

7. negligible ::

négligeable

8. modest ::

modeste

9. deficient ::

défectueux

10. miserly ::

avare

11. niggardly ::

avare

12. beggarly ::

misérable

13. measly ::

misérable

14. stingy ::

avare

15. piddling ::

minable

Antonyms

1. abundant ::

abondant

2. ample ::

ample

3. bountiful ::

généreux

4. generous ::

généreuse

5. liberal ::

libéral

6. plenteous ::

abondant

7. plentiful ::

copieux

Different Forms

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