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Definitions

exiguity

[eg-zuh-gyoo-uh-tee, ek-suh-] / ˌɛg zəˈgyu ə ti, ˌɛk sə- /

NOUN

impecuniosity

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WEAK

abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit depletion destitution difficulty distress emptiness famine hardship impecuniousness impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency lack meagerness necessitousness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penuriousness penury pinch poorness privation reduction scarcity shortage starvation straits underdevelopment vacancy want

NOUN

impecuniousness

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STRONG

abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit depletion destitution difficulty distress emptiness famine hardship impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency lack meagerness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penuriousness penury pinch poorness privation reduction scarcity shortage starvation straits underdevelopment vacancy want

WEAK

impecuniosity necessitousness

Antonyms

STRONG

abundance adequacy advantage affluence benefit blessing comfort ease enough excess fill lot pleasure plenty profit satisfaction sufficiency surplus wealth

NOUN

impoverishment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

depletion famine hardship insolvency privation scarcity starvation underdevelopment

STRONG

abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit destitution difficulty distress emptiness impecuniousness inadequacy indigence insufficiency lack meagerness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penuriousness penury pinch poorness reduction shortage straits vacancy want

WEAK

impecuniosity necessitousness

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STRONG

abundance adequacy advantage affluence comfort enough excess fill lot pleasure plenty satisfaction sufficiency wealth

NOUN

lack

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STRONGEST

absence dearth inadequacy loss paucity poverty reduction scarcity shortage shortcoming shortfall

STRONG

abridgement curtailment decrease default defect deficit depletion deprivation destitution distress exigency inferiority insufficiency meagerness miss necessity privation retrenchment scantiness shortness shrinkage shrinking slightness stint want

WEAK

insufficience

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abundance affluence enough excess plenty success sufficiency

STRONG

addition advantage enlargement expansion increase perfection

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extra lot plethora profusion surplus

NOUN

neediness

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STRONG

abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit depletion destitution difficulty distress emptiness famine hardship impecuniousness impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency lack meagerness necessity need pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penuriousness penury pinch poorness privation reduction scarcity shortage starvation straits underdevelopment vacancy want

WEAK

impecuniosity necessitousness

Antonyms

STRONG

abundance adequacy advantage affluence benefit blessing comfort ease enough excess fill lot pleasure plenty profit satisfaction sufficiency surplus wealth

NOUN

pennilessness

Synonyms

STRONG

abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit depletion destitution difficulty distress emptiness famine hardship impecuniousness impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency lack meagerness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism penuriousness penury pinch poorness privation reduction scarcity shortage starvation straits underdevelopment vacancy want

WEAK

impecuniosity necessitousness

Antonyms

STRONG

abundance adequacy advantage affluence benefit blessing comfort ease enough excess fill lot pleasure plenty profit satisfaction sufficiency surplus wealth

NOUN

penuriousness

Synonyms

STRONG

abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit depletion destitution difficulty distress emptiness famine hardship impecuniousness impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency lack meagerness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penury pinch poorness privation reduction scarcity shortage starvation straits underdevelopment vacancy want

WEAK

impecuniosity necessitousness

Antonyms

STRONG

abundance adequacy advantage affluence benefit blessing comfort ease enough excess fill lot pleasure plenty profit satisfaction sufficiency surplus wealth

NOUN

poverty

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bankruptcy debt deficit difficulty famine hardship lack scarcity shortage starvation underdevelopment

STRONG

abjection aridity barrenness beggary dearth deficiency depletion destitution distress emptiness impecuniousness impoverishment inadequacy indigence insolvency insufficiency meagerness necessity pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penury pinch poorness privation reduction straits vacancy

WEAK

necessitousness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abundance ease enough excess plenty profit surplus

STRONG

adequacy advantage affluence fill sufficiency wealth

WEAK

luxury richness

NOUN

scarcity

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dearth drought famine inadequacy insufficiency lack paucity shortage

STRONG

infrequency rareness rarity scantiness sparsity stringency uncommonness want

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abundance enough excess plenty sufficiency

WEAK

commonness surplus

Example Sentences

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The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of A Midsummer-Night's Dream are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions.

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank

The upper chambers are reached by a ladder-stair of extreme exiguity, so frail and narrow that one person only can mount at a time, and only then by bowing his head.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

Its very exiguity proves that the male cannot remain underground; so soon as the chamber is ready he must retire in order to leave the female room to move.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

Obviously, the gravitational tie, rendered powerless by exiguity of matter, was here replaced by some other form of mutual action, the nature of which can as yet be dealt with only by conjecture.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

No lean-jowled, hungry-looking devotees, living in exiguity and droning in exinanition their prayers,––not by any means.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

exiguity

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