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SKIMPY (skimpier, skimpiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: skimpier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, skimpiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does skimpy mean? 

SKIMPY (adjective)
  The adjective SKIMPY has 2 senses:

1. containing little excessplay

2. (of clothing) revealing the bodyplay

  Familiarity information: SKIMPY used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SKIMPY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: skimpier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: skimpiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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