Lenten Spartan abstemious ascetic austere cheeseparing chinchy chintzy deficient dwarfed dwarfish exiguous failing frugal impoverished inadequate infrequent insufficient jejune lean limited meager mean miserly narrow paltry parsimonious piddling poor puny rare scant scanty scarce scattered scrawny scrimp scrimping scrimpy seldom met with seldom seen shy skimp skimping slender slight slim small spare sparing sparse spotty sprinkled starvation stingy stinted straitened stunted subsistence thin tight unnourishing unnutritious wanting watered watery