Scant
[skænt]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Limit, straiten, stint.
a. Insufficient, SCANTY.
Typist: Suzy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Short, insufficient, mean, niggardly, stingy, narrow, limited, chary, sparing
ANT:Full, ample, liberal, generous, bountiful, unmeasured
Typed by Arlene
Definition
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.
Checked by Abby
Examples
- I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is no sandy plain, nor any circumscribed and scant oasis I seem to realize. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You would think it romantic to be walking with a person fat and scant o' breath if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Yeobright remained in his study, sitting over the open books; but the work of those hours was miserably scant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am reasonable, answered Front-de-Boeuf, and if silver be scant, I refuse not gold. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- When he could get no other fuel he turned to the scant furnishings of his house. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Lack of control of natural forces means that a scant number of natural objects enter into associated behavior. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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