exiguous

adj

Etymology: From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).

1. Scanty; meager.

   “The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.”

   “The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.”