Synonyms: scrimpy, meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy
Definition: deficient in amount or quality or extent
Usage: meager resources; meager fare
Similar words: bare, scanty, spare
Definition: lacking in amplitude or quantity
Usage: a bare livelihood; a scanty harvest; a spare diet
Similar words: exiguous
Definition: extremely scanty
Usage: an exiguous budget
Similar words: hand-to-mouth
Definition: providing only bare essentials
Usage: a hand-to-mouth existence
Similar words: hardscrabble
Definition: barely satisfying a lower standard
Usage: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life
Similar words: paltry, miserable, measly
Definition: contemptibly small in amount
Usage: a measly tip; the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief; a paltry wage; almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans