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11scant — [skant] adj. [ME < ON skamt < skammr, short: see SCAMP2] 1. inadequate in size or amount; not enough; meager 2. lacking a small part of the whole; not quite up to full measure [a scant foot] vt. 1. to limit in size or amount; stint 2 …
12scant|ly — «SKANT lee», adverb. 1. scantily; in a scant manner or degree; slightly: »A grace but scantly thine (Tennyson). 2. Archaic. scarcely; hardly; barely …
13scant — index deficient, inadequate, inappreciable, insubstantial, insufficient, marginal, minimal, minor, negligible …
14scant of — index devoid Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
15scant — (adj.) mid 14c., from O.N. skamt, neuter of skammr short, brief, from P.Gmc. *skamma (Cf. O.E. scamm short, O.H.G. skemmen to shorten ), perhaps ultimately hornless …
16scant — scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, *meager, exiguous, spare, sparse Analogous words: *deficient, defective: scarce, rare, *infrequent Antonyms: plentiful: profuse …
17scant — / scanty [adj] inadequate bare, barely sufficient, close, deficient, exiguous, failing, insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare, restricted, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy, thin,… …
18scant — ► ADJECTIVE 1) barely sufficient or adequate. 2) barely amounting to the amount specified. ► VERB chiefly N. Amer. ▪ provide or deal with insufficiently. DERIVATIVES scantly adverb scantness noun. ORIGIN …
19scant|i|ly — «SKAN tuh lee», adverb. in a scanty manner; insufficiently; inadequately …
20scant — [[t]skæ̱nt[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n You use scant to indicate that there is very little of something or not as much of something as there should be. She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car.… …
