Usually means: Very small, scanty, or insufficient.
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  1. exiguous: Merriam-Webster
  2. exiguous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exiguous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exiguous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exiguous: Vocabulary.com
  6. exiguous: Wordnik
  7. exiguous: Wiktionary
  8. exiguous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. exiguous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. exiguous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Exiguous: Dictionary.com
  12. Exiguous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. exiguous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. exiguous: Rhymezone
  15. Exiguous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. exiguous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. exiguous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. exiguous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. exiguous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exiguous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. exiguous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. exiguous: Dictionary.com
  23. exiguous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exiguous: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exiguous: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
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adjective:  Scanty; meager.

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