exiguous

Definizione monolingua

exiguous

exiguous (comparative more exiguous, superlative most exiguous)

1. scanty; meager
   • 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII

     The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.

   • 1912 — G. K. Chesterton, Manalive ch VII

     The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.

   • 1998 — Michael Ignatieff, Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia. New Statesman, Feb 6.

     They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.

   • 2001 — Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography.

     Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a fathers financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that, by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the familys exiguous circumstances.

Definizione dizionario exiguous

	esiguo
	extremely scanty

Altri significati:

scanty; meager