Translation Japanese English: 乏しい

1 Lilliputian, fiddling, footling, humble, immaterial, incorporeal, indifferent, insignificant, little, low, lowly, meager, meagerly, meagre, modest, niggling, nonmaterial, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, scrimpy, slight, small, stingy, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant.

2 au naturel, bare, barren, bleak, desolate, marginal, mere, naked, nude, plain, scanty, simple, spare, stark, stripped, unembellished, unfinished, unornamented, unsheathed.

3 avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, meager, meagerly, meagre, mean, mingy, miserly, prehensile, scrimpy, stingy, tight.

4 bare, bland, faint, flat, flavorless, flavourless, flimsy, fragile, humble, insipid, lean, low, lowly, modest, papery, powdery, savorless, savourless, scanty, slight, small, spare, sparse, tenuous, thin, vapid, washy, watery, weak.

5 bare, cold, poor, scanty, spare.

6 bare, decreased, reduced, scanty, spare.

7 bare, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, poor, scanty, scarce, short, spare.

8 bare, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, poor, scanty, short, spare, unequal.

9 bare, deficient, inadequate, lacking, meager, meagerly, meagre, poor, scanty, scrimpy, short, spare, stingy, wanting.

10 bare, excess, extra, free, plain, redundant, scanty, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, trim, unembellished, unornamented.

11 bare, few, little, scanty, slight, spare.

12 bare, grudging, inadequate, lean, light, little, meager, meagerly, meagre, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, scrimy, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, spare, stingy.

13 barren, hapless, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, penniless, penurious, pinched, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched.

14 bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagerly, meagre, pinched, scrimpy, skeletal, skimpy, sparse, stingy, thin, wasted.

15 hapless, inadequate, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, short, wretched.

16 meager, meagerly, meagre, measly, miserable, paltry, scrimpy, stingy.

17 meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy, ungenerous.