paucity

paucity

1. niukkuus, vähäisyys

Esimerkkejä:

paucity of speech

Liittyvät sanat: exiguity

Synonyymisanakirja

paucity

vähäisyys, vajavaisuus, niukkuus, pula, vähyys, puute.

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Englannin sanakirja

paucity (englanti > suomi)

1. niukkuus

paucity englanniksi

1. fewness Fewness in number; too few.

2. 1915, w:Anna Katharine Green|Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7:

But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.

3. 2006, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, "http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1214451,00.html Uncle Sam Wants You," Time, 13 July:

Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.

4. A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.

5. 1898, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, "At the Appetite-Cure":

Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.

6. 1915, w:Gene Stratton-Porter|Gene Stratton-Porter, Michael OHalloran'', ch. 12:

Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.

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