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SKIMPY (skimpier, skimpiest)
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, skimpiest Dictionary entry overview: What does skimpy mean?
• SKIMPY (adjective)
The adjective SKIMPY has 2 senses:
1. containing little excess
2. (of clothing) revealing the body
Familiarity information: SKIMPY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: skimpiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Containing little excess
Synonyms:
lean; skimpy
Context example:
a skimpy allowance
Similar:
deficient; insufficient (of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of clothing) revealing the body
Synonyms:
scanty; skimpy
Context example:
her dress was scanty and revealing
Similar:
revealing (showing or making known)
Context examples
A diet of plant leaves has little nutritional value and that the animals' gut size limits them to small amounts per day, so sloths need to find ways to make the most of their skimpy diets.
(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)
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