Scanty
['skæntɪ] or ['skænti]
Definition
(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insufficient, short, narrow, slender, meagre, lean, scant, deficient, not plentiful, not enough.
Edited by Clio
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REPROACH]
Editor: Wallace
Examples
- I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And Gudrun could see he was making some slow confidence to Ursula, unwilling, a slow, grudging, scanty self-revelation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Very quietly, she placed a chair before the scanty fire, and sat down in it, drawing her shawl about her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair, grovelled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was his little scanty travelling clothes upon him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When Davy was about sixteen years old, his father died, leaving the widow and her five children, of whom Humphry was the eldest, with v ery scanty provision. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The only evidence of her last return now, were the scantier moveables in his room, and the grayer hair upon his head. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Things hang together, he added, looking on the floor and moving his feet uneasily with a sense that words were scantier than thoughts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Shirley