MEANING
Extremely small or inadequate in amount or extent.
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- exiguous resources
- exiguous space
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They survived on exiguous resources.
The desk occupied the cabin’s exiguous free space.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more exiguous; superlative most exiguous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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