scant

Plural: scants

Verb

Verb Forms: scanted, scanting, scants

• To provide a meager or insufficient amount of something.
• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
• limit in quality or quantity
• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
• To limit in amount or share; to stint.
• To fail, or become less; to scantle.

Adjective Satellite

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
  • "a scant cup of sugar"

Adj

• Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
• Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
• Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.

Det

• Very little, very few.

Noun

• A small piece or quantity.
• Scarcity; lack.
• A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
• A sheet of stone.
• A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

Adv

• With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Adjective

• Barely sufficient; meager or inadequate in amount.

Examples

• a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
• a scant cup of sugar
• After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
• His score was SCANT, needing a major play to catch up in the Scrabble game.
• The opponent decided to SCANT his vowels, leading to a rack full of consonants.
• The wind scants.
• to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries

Synonyms

light, short, skimp, stint, few, geason, little, rare, slight, sparse

Antonyms

ample, plenty

Related Words

scantily

Anagrams of scant