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What is the adjective for exigency?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb exiguate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

exigent
  1. Urgent; needing immediate action.
  2. Demanding; needing great effort.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. urgent, critical, imperative, pressing, crucial, importunate, acute, burning, clamant, compelling, dire, emergent, imperious, necessary, necessitous, crying, needful, important, vital, instant, serious, grave, desperate, drastic, essential, severe, life-and-death, all-important, extreme, parlous, terrible, must-have, high priority, high-priority, of the essence, of great consequence, indispensable, climacteric, great, decisive, significant, paramount, integral, required, fundamental, key, precarious, intense, profound, dreadful … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Charles immediately revealed the full and exigent nature of his demands.”
      “They compound the exigent task of obtaining and applying the resources needed for economic development.”
exiguous
  1. scanty; meager
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meagre, scant, paltry, scanty, insufficient, inadequate, sparse, negligible, scarce, meager, measly, skimpy, small, limited, deficient, poor, slight, piddling, petty, spare, short, stingy, light, little, slender, slim, pathetic, pitiful, miserable, sparing, thin, tiny, skimp, modest, restricted, puny, miserly, bare, beggarly, tenuous, narrow, confined, hand-to-mouth, thin on the ground, insubstantial, inconsiderable, trifling, insignificant, inappreciable, trivial … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Some of them, starting with exiguous capital, have made large fortunes in a year or two of trade.”
      “A lot of the fun of reading these papers is seeing how an exiguous collection of commitments plays out in so many different domains.”
      “Given these exiguous resources, Faulkner's political achievements down to the end of 1973 were not inconsiderable.”
exiguated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of exiguate
exiguating
  1. present participle of exiguate
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