exiguity
81scarcity — n 1. lack, dearth, want, need, crying need; insufficiency, inadequacy, deprivation, deficiency; paucity, sparseness, sparsity, scantiness; exiguity, ex iguousness, slenderness, thinness, leanness, meagerness, shortage, small number, paltriness;… …
82exiguous — /əgˈzɪgjuəs / (say uhg zigyoohuhs), /ɛg / (say eg ) adjective scanty; small; slender. {Latin exiguus} –exiguity /ɛksəˈgjuəti/ (say eksuh gyoohuhtee), exiguousness, noun –exiguously, adverb …
83lack — [n] deficiency, need abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss,… …
84poverty — [n] want; extreme need, often financial abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment,… …
85exiguous — a. sparse; slender. ♦ exiguity, n …
86exiguous — [eg zig′yo͞o əs, igzig′yo͞o əs] adj. [L exiguus, small < exigere: see EXACT] scanty; little; small; meager exiguity [ek΄sə gyo͞o′ə tē] n …
87abstemiousness — noun 1. restricted to bare necessities • Derivationally related forms: ↑abstemious • Hypernyms: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness, ↑ …
88exiguous — adj. scanty, small. Derivatives: exiguity n. exiguously adv. exiguousness n. Etymology: L exiguus scanty f. exigere weigh exactly: see EXACT …
89inadequacy — noun 1. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 1) the inadequacy of unemployment benefits • Syn: ↑insufficiency, ↑deficiency • Ant: ↑adequacy, ↑sufficiency ( …
90spareness — noun 1. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness • Syn: ↑sparseness, ↑sparsity, ↑thinness • Derivationally related forms: ↑thin (for: ↑thinness), ↑sparse …
