| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Not physically strong: decrepit, delicate, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, infirm, insubstantial, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, weakly. See STRONG. 2. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, meager, poor, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy, thin. Slang : measly. See BIG, EXCESS.
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