July 28, 2007
Word of 28th July 2007: A Word A Day-Exiguity
Exiguity
Exiguity : (ek'si-gyu'i-te)
The condition of being scanty, the quality of being meager, lacking denseness
Contextual Examples:
What you have purchased is nothing but an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes.
The soldiers' pay is in the highest degree exiguous; not above three half-pence a day.
Synonyms:
1. Meagerness
2. Meagerness
3. Poorness
4. Scantiness
5. Scantness
6. Smallness
7. Thinness
8. Insufficiency
9. Inadequacy
10. Deficiency
Related Words:
Exiguous : Adjective
Exiguously : Adverb
Exiguousness : Noun
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