exiguous
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
Examples
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He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England.
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His exiguous chapter on slavery in American Notes was lazily annexed word-for-word from a famous abolitionist pamphlet of the day, and employed chiefly to discredit the whole American idea.
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So, I went to China with an exiguous expense account, a list of places to be visited and described and a very rudimentary command of Mandarin.
A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons
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It has a downtown so exiguous that a pedestrian outside its biggest office building at 9 on a weekday morning is a phenomenon as singular as a cow in Times Square.
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Together they had a noble breakfast, with waffles, and coffee not in exiguous cups but in large pots.
Note
The word 'exiguous' comes from a Latin word meaning 'small, brief, scanty, slight.'
