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adjective
  1. (Slang)

    Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent:

    exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, stingy, thin. See big, excess
  2. (Slang)

    Contemptibly unimportant:

    inconsiderable, negligible, niggling, nugatory, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, small, small-minded, trifling. Idiom: of no account. See important

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