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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

being at a minimum in terms of amount, extent, or degree;

e.g. Their aprons allowed them to compete the task with minimal mess on their clothes.

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Similar Words

Bare-bones

Fewer

Minimum

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Opposite Words

Abundant

Ample

Aplenty

Bad

Baroque

Bountiful

Bush

Comfortable

Copious

Crummy

Deficient

Devilish

Excessive

Exorbitant

Extravagant

Extreme

Fancy

From

Galore

Generous

Ill

Immoderate

Inferior

Inordinate

Insane

Intolerable

Last

Lavish

Liberal

Maximal

Maximum

Most

Off

Outside

Over-the-top

Overdue

Overmuch

Overweening

Paltry

Plenteous

Plentiful

Plenty

Poor

Profuse

Riotous

Sour

Steep

Stiff

Substandard

Supreme

Top

Topmost

Towering

Ultimate

Unacceptable

Unconscionable

Undue

Unmerciful

Unsatisfactory

Utmost

Worse

Wrong

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Related Words

Acceptable

Adequate

All right

Common

Commoner

Decent

Exiguous

Fair

Fairish

Fewer

Fine

Fragile

Frail

Good

Hand-to-mouth

Indifferent

Infinitesimal

Lesser

Light

Low

Meager

Media

Mediocre

Medium

Micro

Middling

Minor

Modest

Negligible

Niggardly

OK

Ordinary

Outside

Passable

Remote

Respectable

Run-of-the-mill

Run-of-the-mine

Satisfactory

Scant

Scanty

Scarce

Second-class

Second-rate

Serviceable

Skimp

Skimpy

Slender

Slight

Slim

Small

So-so

Spare

Sparing

Sparse

Sparsely

Stingy

The

Tolerable

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