The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.
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Exiguous
//ɪɡˈzɪ.ɡju.əs//
Synonyms for "exiguous" (83 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- незначителен adj (extremely scanty)
- оскъден adj (extremely scanty)
Catalan
1 entries- exigu adj (extremely scanty)
French
1 entries- exigu adj (extremely scanty)
Italian
1 entries- esiguo adj (extremely scanty)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- hestî adj (extremely scanty)
- qaştîk adj (extremely scanty)
- zeîfok adj (extremely scanty)
Polish
3 entries- skąpy adj (extremely scanty)
- szczupły adj (extremely scanty)
- znikomy adj (extremely scanty)
Portuguese
1 entries- exíguo adj (extremely scanty)
Russian
1 entries- ску́дный adj (extremely scanty)
Spanish
1 entries- exiguo adj (extremely scanty)
Ukrainian
3 entries- малий adj (extremely scanty)
- мізерний adj (extremely scanty)
- незначний adj (extremely scanty)
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5 total sentences available.
The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.
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They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.
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Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a father's financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that, by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the family's exiguous circumstances.
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