Definitions for exiguous

exiguous ex·ig·u·ous

Spelling: [ig-zig-yoo-uh s, ik-sig-]
IPA: /ɪgˈzɪg yu əs, ɪkˈsɪg-/

Exiguous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in exiguous (egiosuux).

Definitions for exiguous

adjective

  1. scanty; meager; small; slender:

Origin of exiguous

1645-55; Latin exiguus scanty in measure or number, small, equivalent to exig(ere) (see exigent) + -uus deverbal adj. suffix

Examples for exiguous

The hospitality of the simple peasant was as hearty, his welcome as warm, as his means were exiguous.

We belong—belonged—to an exiguous family, and naturally I'm no longer as young as I was.

Some of them, starting with exiguous capital, have made large fortunes in a year or two of trade.

Often the Signal Office gives you the most exiguous information.

Liosha joined us, accompanied by a porter, carrying their exiguous baggage.

Together they had a noble breakfast, with waffles, and coffee not in exiguous cups but in large pots.

For the inflated he cherishes a noiseless, most exiguous bodkin.

There are plenty of references to them indeed, but they are exiguous and dull.

Diving suddenly into the recesses of something, she produced an exiguous round silver box.

Flora saw her father trembling in all his exiguous length, though he held himself stiffer than ever if that was possible.

Word Value for exiguous
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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