scant English

Meaning scant meaning

What does scant mean?

Definitions in simple English

scant Adjective

— If something is scant, there is very little or very few of it; very little, very few. After he lied about his age, the bartender had scant reason to believe that he was twenty-one years old.

scant Noun

— A scant is a sheet of stone.

scant

— adjective (= light, short) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so a light pound a scant cup of sugar regularly gives short weight

— verb limit in quality or quantity

— verb (= skimp) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

— verb (= stint) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities sting with the allowance

Synonyms scant synonyms

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scant English » English

stint

skimp

scarce

scanty

few

sparse

meager

short

poor

meagre

little

insufficient

restrict

reduce

rare

limited

light

cursory

beggarly

weak

tight

thin

straiten

starveling

spare

smear

small

slight

slender

skint

skimpy

scrimpy

scrimp

scotch

povvo

penny-pinch

not many

narrow

moneyless

minimize

localize

localise

limit

less

lean

lack

inefficient

inadequate

in short supply

hardly any

Topics scant topics

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States Quantity Plural

Few, little

• What words indicate that there is a small amount of something?
  a little a bit of a small amount of trace trickle dab an element of a touch of a hint of taste of dearth grain hair inappreciable inconsequential inconsiderable infinitesimal insignificant iota limited minimum minute mite moderate modest modicum ounce particle poor scant scanty scintilla shred slight smidgen some speck spoonful suggestion suspicion tidbit tinge tiny trifle whit

States Quantity Enough

Lack

• What words describe something that you lack?
  inadequate insufficient meager needed poor scant scanty scarce short

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He is hot and scant of breath.

He's fat, and scant of breath.

You're the trashy accomplices of Scant?

He's fat and scant of breath.

A scant dozen with three, but only one. just one case. where I worked with all of them.

My own food supplies are nearing exhaustion, and the local environment offers scant pickings.

I have hope you less know how to value her desert than she to scant her duty.

In the minister's flock, earthly love and marriage. were considered to be of scant worth and merely empty illusion.

The following day, Aprll 30th, 10 a.m., advanced Russlan units penetrate to the street next to the chancellery, scant yards from the bunker.

He's scant of breath.

Mr. Horne, as you are no doubt aware, there are but scant hours until our wine-tasting benefit begins and I can't find your daughter anywhere.

Explain to the Major, he has little to fear. from this General Marquis de Montcalm in the first place, and therefore scant need of the colonial militia in the second, because the French haven't the nature for war.

But for a scant few moments, she was able to be an ordinary girl and make love with you.

A quarantine has been established to protect neighboring townships and extends to the Pacific ocean, just a scant mile away.

A scant minority of my kind are planning an uprising. I believe they seek to shatter the existing order and create a new world.

It had separated the neighboring great houses of Bulaire and Gurnie. by far more than the scant few miles that lay between them. in those days that began with the death of Rauf.

I have heard scant news of Ireland these many days.

Certainly he's demonstrated scant ability in fighting.

A scant dozen with three. but only one. just one case. where I worked with all of them.

The news we get from outside is so scant and confusing.

Stationed a scant 50 miles from here.

The unstoppably sophisticated Nina Scant from British Vogue.

What suite is Nina Scant in?

Heaven defend your good souls that you think I will your serious and great business scant for she is with me.

It makes our quarantine quarters look a bit scant.

Behind the mention of Albania, of his stomach flu. taking refuge these scant days away from the election.

Police and hundreds of volunteers continue their gruesome search for the bodies of murder victims, working on a scant tip-off that the bleak moors hide the evidence of a mass murderer.

Merely to deprive her of her life, monsieur, would afford for you satisfaction most scant.

It might be a claw, for the scant amount of flesh there is upon it.

He's hot, and scant of breath.

He reminded himself, comma, again, comma, that whatever sacrifice of personal conscience was required of him, comma, even his humanity, comma, was of scant consequence to his penance.

All this toil will yield surprisingly scant results.

But these improvements so scant that Miss Cobden, others like her, some of the girls even too, refused to accept this change in provision.

Find that factory manager, hang him by his ankles over one of his dipping vats and have from him the roll of girls that refused to accept his scant settlement.

News and current affairs

Unfortunately, there is scant support for this idea.

The constitution says that power belongs to the people, but in reality the rights of the people belong to the Communist Party and its leaders, from whom workers and peasants receive scant attention.

Even though reform bolstered economic growth by improving productivity in the non-agricultural economy, scant progress was made in raising the living standards of the poor.

But, given the scant interest of European Union members in transferring further competences (and juicy international positions) to the EU level, the chances that this solution will prevail seem remote.

But despite the price that President Putin is paying at home for his pro-Western policies--which are not nearly as popular in Russia as they are in the West--scant economic rewards, particularly from the European Union, have appeared.

This structure could only have been devised to suck in as many customers as possible with scant regard for long-term consequences.

So Greece's economy has scant ability to create sustained productivity growth and high human satisfaction.

On the left, Royal, the Socialist president of the region of Poitou-Charentes, has scant government experience, serving brief stints as environment minister, family minister, and education minister.

Moreover, this system subjects the world economy to cycles of confidence in the US dollar, while placing the world economy at the mercy of a national authority - one that often makes decisions with scant regard for their international implications.

Scant signs of weapons of mass destruction have been found, and, according to David Kay, America's chief arms inspector, the stockpiles either never existed or were destroyed years ago.

The DPJ has had scant time to make up for what the LDP has long neglected.

Deficient education, infrastructure, security, and courts, together with endemic corruption and scant entrepreneurial dynamism, militate against excessive optimism.

Moreover, for developing countries that were foolish enough to sign such agreements, the evidence is that the benefits, if any, have been scant.

From the moment of victory, he will have scant time to put together a pact with the principal political forces that can sustain him.

Hollande's reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.

Bachelet's margin of victory was far larger than the scant 31,000 votes that brought Lagos to power in January 2000.

While Russia was launching its bid to subordinate Ukraine, I was in prison, with scant hope of ever regaining my freedom.

He has always shown scant regard for his people's plight, and he still expects to get two-thirds or more of the oil and food he needs from China.

Not surprisingly, that prospect offers scant comfort to China.

There is scant chance of that if Trump is the party's standard-bearer.

But, given a global economic environment that promises scant sustainable growth in the coming years, things could otherwise get very tough very soon.

There was scant need to convince scientists of the importance of basic research.