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All exiguousness synonyms

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noun exiguousness

  • insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
  • scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
  • absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
  • deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
  • inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
  • lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
  • paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
  • shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
  • default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
  • defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
  • famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
  • infrequency — state of being infrequent.
  • meagerness — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
  • miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
  • poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
  • privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
  • rare — Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne
  • scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
  • scantness — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
  • sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
  • uncommon — not common; unusual; rare: an uncommon word.
  • want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
  • destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
  • exigency — An urgent need or demand.
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
  • indigence — seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
  • neediness — a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
  • pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
  • penury — extreme poverty; destitution.
  • poorness — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
  • skimpily — lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
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