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skimpadjective less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirablemoney would be skimp until she got her first paycheck from her new job exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, short, wantingbare, bare-bonesleast, littlest, lowest, mere, minimal, slightestslight, small, thinbarren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive thin on the ground abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful adequate, enough, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerablefat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, prolific, richlavish, luxuriantblooming, bursting, flourishing, proliferative, swarming, teeming, thrivingexcess, extra, surplus skimpverbto avoid unnecessary waste or expensewe must skimp and save if we are going to afford a vacation this summer economize, pinch, save, scrimp, spare conserve, husband, maintain, manage, preservescrapecut back, cut down, retrenchhoard, lay up pinch pennies waste blow, dissipate, fritter (away), lavish, misspend, run through, spend, squander, throw awaysplurge in 1775 |