Exiguous vs Derisive - What's the difference?
exiguous | derisive |
scanty; meager
* 1889 — ch XIII
* 1912 — ch VII
* 1998 — Michael Ignatieff, Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia . New Statesman, Feb 6.
* 2001 — Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography .
* 2012 — Rodger Cohen, Scottexalonia Rising, New York Times, Nov. 26., Op. Ed.
Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
As adjectives the difference between exiguous and derisive
is that exiguous is scanty; meager while derisive is expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.exiguous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 .
- They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.
- Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a father's financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that, by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the family's exiguous circumstances.
- National politics, as President François Hollande of France is only the latest to discover, is often no more than tweaking at the margins in the exiguous political space left by markets and other global forces.
Derived terms
* exiguity * exiguously * exiguousnessderisive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The critic's review of the film was derisive .
- The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.