单词 | exiguity |
释义 | exiguity (once / 241211 pages) n WORD FAMILY exiguity: exiguities+/exiguous: exiguity, exiguously USAGE EXAMPLESThe strong sonorous voice of the layman was in singular contrast with the exiguity of his thin, stunted frame. Huc, Evariste Regis, Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and Chi...(2010) The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha. Moses, Montrose Jonas, The Politician Out-Witted(2010) Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport. James, Henry, A Small Boy and Others(2010) n the quality of being meager "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot Syn|Hypo|Hyper leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness wateriness meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) abstemiousnessrestricted to bare necessities spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinnessthe property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number |
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