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skimpy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective skimpy has 1 sense
- skimpy(s = adj.all) lean - containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
skimpy, adj. (skimpier, skimpiest) meagre; not ample or sufficient.
Derivative
skimpily adv. skimpiness n.
THESAURUS
skimpy
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, deficient, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, failing, frugal, impoverished, inadequate, infrequent, insufficient, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, piddling, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shy, skimp, skimping, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, unnourishing, unnutritious, wanting, watered, watery
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