Scant

[skænt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) limit in quality or quantity.

校對:莎娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.

(superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

(v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

(v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

(v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

(adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

(n.) Scantness; scarcity.

編輯:普鲁登斯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Limit, straiten, stint.

a. Insufficient, SCANTY.

整理:苏西

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Short, insufficient, mean, niggardly, stingy, narrow, limited, chary, sparing

ANT:Full, ample, liberal, generous, bountiful, unmeasured

阿琳整理

解釋/意思:

adj. not full or plentiful; scarcely sufficient: deficient.—n. scarcity: lack.—adv. scarcely: scantily.—v.t. and v.i. to limit: to stint: to begrudge.—adv. Scan′tily.—ns. Scan′tiness; Scan′-tity (obs.).—adv. Scant′ly not fully or sufficiently scarcely: narrowly: penuriously: scantily.—ns. Scant′ness the condition or quality of being scant: smallness: insufficiency; Scant′-of-grace a good-for-nothing fellow: a scapegrace.—adj. Scant′y scant not copious or full: hardly sufficient: wanting extent: narrow: small.

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