beggarly
adjective /ˈbeɡ.ə.li/
/ˈ-ɚ-/ literaryDefinition
› small and not at all generous: The council voted to give the new project a beggarly amount of money.Small in number and quantity
(Definition of beggarly adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
- Augmenting and supplementing
- Available and accessible
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- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
- Extremely small
- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
- Plenty and abundant
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- Small
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- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
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- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
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- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
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Synonyms and related words:
- below adverb, preposition (LESS)
- certain adjective (LIMITED)
- could count sth on (the fingers of) one hand idiom
- drabs noun
- few determiner, pronoun (SOME)
- little adjective (SMALL)
- mingy adjective
- minimal adjective
- modest adjective (NOT LARGE)
- narrow adjective (ONLY JUST)
- negligible adjective
- niggardly adjective
- outside adjective
- remote adjective (SLIGHT)
- slender adjective
- small adjective (LIMITED ACTIVITY)
- small adjective (LITTLE)
- some adverb (SMALL AMOUNT)
- strength noun (NUMBER)
- thinly adverb (FEW)
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Small in number and quantity
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