Scant Definition and Meaning
By Muazma Batool — Published on April 12, 2023
Scant Definitions
Inadequately supplied; short
We were scant of breath after the lengthy climb.
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To give an inadequate portion or allowance to
had to scant the older children in order to nourish the newborn.
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To limit, as in amount or share; stint
Our leisure time is scanted by this demanding job.
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To deal with or treat inadequately or neglectfully; slight.
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Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
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Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
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(transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
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Very little, very few.
After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
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A small piece or quantity.
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(uncommon) Scarcity; lack.
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(masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
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(masonry) A sheet of stone.
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(wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
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With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
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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.
His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.
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To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted.
I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
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To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
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To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
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In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
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Scantness; scarcity.
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work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
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limit in quality or quantity
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less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;
a light pound
a scant cup of sugar
regularly gives short weight
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