exiguous
Syllables: ex·i·gu·ous/ɪɡˈzɪ.ɡju.əs/
exiguous adjective: scanty; meager.
Adjective
exiguous (comparative more exiguous, superlative most exiguous)
- Scanty; meager.
- The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box ch XIII
- The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.1912, G. K. Chesterton, Manalive ch VII
exiguous meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
exiguous in Bengali
- অত্যন্ত অল্প, নগণ্য
exiguous in Malayalam
- insufficient, meagre, inadequate
- തുച്ഛ, അല്പമായ, മെലിഞ്ഞ, ശോഷിച്ച, കഷിടിയായ, കുറഞ്ഞ
exiguous in Kannada
- ಅತ್ಯಲ್ಪ, ಅತಿಸಣ್ಣ, ತುಂಬಾ ಚಿಕ್ಕ, ಕಿರು
Forms of exiguous
| comparative | more exiguous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most exiguous |
Origin of exiguous
From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).
Words formed from exiguous
Words that rhyme with exiguous
Questions about exiguous
- What does exiguous mean?
- Exiguous means scanty; meager.
- What is exiguous in Bengali?
- Exiguous in Bengali is অত্যন্ত অল্প, নগণ্য. See Exiguous meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is exiguous?
- Exiguous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce exiguous?
- Exiguous is pronounced /ɪɡˈzɪ.ɡju.əs/.
Words near exiguous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: exiguous (page history and authors); exiguous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exiguous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); exiguous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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