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Definitions: SCANTLY |
SCANTLYAdverb1. Scarcely; hardly; barely. 2. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. |
Date "SCANTLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clad scantly | 4 |
scantly | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SCANTLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | knapp (almost, bald, bare, barely, barely sufficient, close, concise, concisely, crisp, curtly, just, just enough, laconic, laconically, lean, low, meager, meagre, narrow, pithy, rare, scantily, scanty, scarce, scarcely, scrimpy, short, skimpily, skimpy, slender, stinted, summarily, taut, tautly, terse, tersely, tight, tightly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szűken (close, narrowly, to scrimp), szűkösen (barely, by the skin of one's, scantily), hiányosan (barely, scantily, skimpily), gyéren (scantily, sparsely, thin, thinly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | antlyscay скудно (sparingly). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"SCANTLY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Santley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SCANTLY" (pronounced 'Scant"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly, Cavalierly, Cavally, Chastely, Cheaply, Chely, Chiefly, Choicely, Christly, Churchly, Circumspectly, Clearly, Closely, Coarsely, Coldly, Coly, Compactly, Completely, Comptly, Concisely, Concretely, Condignly, Confestly, Confusely, Conjointly, Conjunctly, Contently, Correctly, Corruptly, Costly, Coxcombly, Coyly, Crisply, Crossly, Crudely, Curtly, Darkly, Dearly, Debonairly, Deeply, Defly, Deftly, Dejectly, Demissly, Demurely, Densely, Dernly, Devoutly, Diffusely, Dilly, Dimly, Directly, Direly, Discretely, Disjointly, Disruly, Dissertly, Distinctly, Divinely, Doily, Dooly, Doyly, Dreadly, Drily, Drumly, Dryly, Dully, Duly, Dumbly, Eighthly, Entirely, Erectly, Exactly, Expertly, Expressly, Extremely, Faintly, Fairly, Falsely, Fastly, Fatly, Featly, Ferly, Fiendly, fifthly, filly, finely, firmly, firstly, fitly, flatly, fleetly, Flockly, FOLLY, fondly, Fonly, forlornly, foully, fourthly, Foxly, frailly, frankly, freely, freshly, fully, gaily, gainly, gamely, Gauntly, gayly, gelly, genteelly, Gladly, Glibly, Globosely, Glossly, Glumly, Gradely, grandly, gravely, greatly, greenly, Grilly, grisly, grossly, grotesquely, Groundly, Grumbly, Haily, haply, hardly, harshly, Heathenishly, highly, hoarsely, holy, Horsly, hotly, Hurly, immaturely, immensely, Importunely, Impurely, Incisely, incompletely, incorrectly, Incorruptly, Indignly, indirectly, indistinctly, ineptly, Inertly, inexactly, Infirmly, Injelly, inopportunely, insanely, insecurely, insincerely, intensely, intently, inversely, jointly, justly, keenly, Lagly, Laidly, lamely, Lancely, Lankly, largely, lastly, lately, laxly, Leanly, Lifely, lightly, Lithely, lonely, Longly, loosely, loudly, madly, Malignly, maturely, meekly, Meetly, merely, Metely, mildly, Misly, Mixtly, Moly, Monkly, morosely, mostly, Mutely, Namely, Naughtly, Nearly, Neatly, Needsly, Newly, Nicely, Nighly, Ninthly, Obliquely, Obscurely, Obtusely, Obversely, Occultly, Oddly, Onely, Ornately, Overcostly, Overhighly, Overstraitly, Overthwartly, Palely, Partly, Patly, Percely, Perplexly, Pertly, Perversely, Piecely, Pily, Plainly, Platly, Plumply, Politely, Polly, Pomely, Portly, Prepensely, Pressly, Prevalently, Prickly, Priestly, Primely, Primly, Profanely, Profoundly, Profusely, Prolixly, Promptly, Pronely, Proudly, Purely, Quaintly, Queenly, Queerly, Quickly, Quitly, Rankly, rarely, rashly, Rawly, Rearly, Reclusely, redly, Reformly, Remissly, reversely, richly, rightly, Rily, Rimosely, ripely, robustly, roughly, roundly, sadly, safely, sagely, saintly, Saltly, Saufly, Savely, Scasely, Scathly, Scragly, securely, Sely, semimonthly, semiweekly, serenely, Sexly, Shackly, shapely, sharply, Sheenly, Sheerly, shortly, shyly, sightly, silly, sincerely, sixthly, slackly, sleekly, Sleightly, slightly, Slily, slimly, slowly, slyly, Smally, smartly, Smickly, smoothly, smugly, snugly, softly, solely, Soonly, Soothly, sorely, soundly, sourly, Southly, sparely, sparsely, sprightly, Spruntly, squarely, Squirely, Stagely, staidly, Stalely, stanchly, Starchly, starkly, Statuesquely, Stayedly, steeply, sternly, stiffly, stoutly, Straitly, strangely, strictly, strongly, sublimely, Submissly, Subobscurely, supremely, surely, surly, Suspensely, sweetly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: scanty, slanty. | |
-2 letters: acyls, antsy, canst, cants, canty, clans, clast, clays, cyans, nasty, salty, scaly, scant, slant, slaty, talcs, tansy. | |
-3 letters: acts, acyl, alts, ants, cans, cant, cast, cats, cays, clan, clay, cyan, cyst, lacs, lacy, last, lats, lays, nays, salt, scan, scat, slat, slay, stay, sync, talc, tans. | |
-4 letters: act, als, alt, ant, any, ays, can, cat, cay, lac, las, lat, lay, nay, sac, sal, sat, say, sly, sty, syn, tan, tas. | |
-5 letters: al, an, as, at, ay, la, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: scantily, secantly, stanchly. | |
+2 letters: analytics, staunchly, syncytial. | |
+3 letters: acetylenes, acylations, constantly, postulancy, scathingly, syndactyly, synoptical, thylacines, unchastely. | |
+4 letters: ancestrally, anxiolytics, ascendantly, consolatory, consonantly, consultancy, craftsmanly, crystalline, cutaneously, incessantly, inscrutably, masculinity, melanocytes, monocrystal, nonmystical, nyctalopias, playactings, satanically, sectionally, subjacently, sycophantly, syndicalist, syntactical, tenaciously, typicalness. | |
+5 letters: acetylations, adolescently, amylopectins, anelasticity, anticatalyst, anticyclones, antisocially, cartoonishly, clairvoyants, constabulary, consummately, contagiously, counterplays, cryptanalyst, crystalizing, cyclizations, cytochalasin, discordantly, discrepantly, dynastically, glycerinates, granulocytes, incautiously, inconstantly, inelasticity, insouciantly, isotonically, lycanthropes, microanalyst, monastically, monocrystals, opalescently, plastocyanin, polysynaptic, prostacyclin, scatteringly, semantically, subcentrally, synaptically, syndactylies, syndactylism, syndetically, syndicalists, synoptically, tracklayings, translucency, unhysterical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 41 4E 54 4C 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .- -. - .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C A N T L Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0043 0041 004E 0054 004C 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53373548544659 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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