From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishexiguousex‧ig‧u‧ous /ɪɡˈzɪɡuəs/ adjective formal SMALLvery small in amount exiguous earnings
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exiguous• As a team with which to go goat-hunting it was not quite so exiguous as he implied.• She gulped it down, paid the exiguous dispensing fee, and left the premises.Origin exiguous (1600-1700) Latin exiguus, from exigere; → EXACT2 