Meaning & use
Exiguous
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Very small in amount or scope; scanty or meager.
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The family survived on an exiguous income for years.
Only an exiguous portion of the manuscript has survived to the present day.
A note on using this word
A rare, formal Latinate word from exiguus, meaning "scanty"; it appears mostly in literary or academic writing.
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