is similar to: bare, scanty, spare | exiguous | hand-to-mouth | hardscrabble | measly, miserable, paltry.

see also: scarce | minimal, minimum | deficient, insufficient.

is an attribute of: adequacy, sufficiency.

is the opposite of: ample.

derivation: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness.