Scant

Definition: Scant

Scant

Adjective

1. 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

1. Work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially.

2. Limit in quality or quantity.

3. Supply sparingly, with a meager allowance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Scant \Scant\, adjective. [Comparative Scanter; superlative Scantest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Scant

Fewness

Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.

Insufficiency

Scant; (small); scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy; at the end of one's tether; without resources; in want; (poor); in debt.

Littleness

Weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin; (narrow); granular; (powdery); shrunk; brevipennate.

Narrowness Thinness

Adjective: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like; (filament); finespun, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded; (expand; ); slender as a thread.

Smallness

Adjective: small, little; diminutive; (small in size); minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; (unimportant); faint; (weak); slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; (insufficient); sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.

Crosswords: Scant

'A closer look at the file and independent research by this newspaper into its key claims indicate that many of the serious accusations against Mr Wigand are backed by scant or contradictory evidence' (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth)

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Small child playing in the scant shade of weeds and bean plants near Muskogee, Oklahoma. She had accompanied her elder sister to the bean patch because it was cooler there than in the potato fields where the mother was working. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Atypical melanocytes may be absent or scant and randomly scattered through the lesion. (references)

For any proposed clinical situation, costs are decreased to the extent that corticosteroids reduce illness in survivors, and increased for infants that would have died quickly without them. Data on costs from randomized trials are scant, but length of stay was reduced by about one-third in corticosteroid-treated infants in the four trials for which these data were collected. (references)

Economic History

Mali

President Konare won the presidential election against scant opposition on May 11. In the two-round legislative elections conducted on July 21 and August 3, ADEMA secured more than 80% of the National Assembly seats. (references)

Argentina

The plan consists of 2,800 infrastructure projects that include long-postponed needs with a value totaling $20.5 billion for the period 2001-2005. Because government financial resources are scant, only 25 percent will be provided by the government, 25 percent through long-term bank loans and the remaining 50 percent by private BOT concessions. (references)

Trade

Korea

The banking industry gave scant attention to domestic small and medium-sized companies. (references)

Worker Rights

Qatar

It is not observed with respect to unskilled laborers and domestic and personal employees, all of whom, with scant exception, are foreigners. (references)

Turkey

In practice financial constraints, limited safety awareness, carelessness, and fatalistic attitudes result in scant attention to occupational safety and health by workers and employers alike. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "scant": be scant of speech ♦ have scant regard for ♦ in scant attire ♦ scant of breath ♦ with scant courtesy. Additional references.

Albanian

i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i pamjaftueshëm (defective, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, scanty, scarce, short, sparing), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقتصد (careful, chary, economical, frugal, provident, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty), ‏مقتر, ‏ناقص (amiss, bid, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, nude, odd, reducible, revoked, sketchy, truncate, unfinished, wanting), ‏قليل الحظ من كذا, ‏قتر (scrimp, skimp, stint), ‏عامل بتصنع, ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏شحيح (mean, mingy, miserly, penury, piker, scarce, sordid, stingy), ‏بخل (avarice, littleness, meanness, miserliness, scrimp, skimp, spare, stinginess, stint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъпя (cherish), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), икономисвам (economize, observe economy, save, scrape, skimp). (various references)

Chinese 

缺乏 (Dearth, Deficiencies, Deficiency, lack, Lacked, lacking, scarce, scarcity). (various references)

Czech

nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scanty, slight, slim, small, thin, trifling), mizivý (minute), malý (faint, little, minor, pokey, remote, short, slender, small, stingy, tight, tiny, young). (various references)

Farsi 

مقدارقلیل (Scantling), معدود (Little, Paucity, Poor), نحیف (Frail, Gaunt, Haggard, Lean, Meager, Scrimp, Skimp, Skimpy, Slight, Spare), ناکافی (Scrimpy), کم دادن (Skimp, Stint), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), قلیل (Scarce, Scrimp, Skimpy, Slender, Slight), تخفیف یافتن (Lessen), اندک (Lean, Light, Little, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Pinch, Scantling, Scarce, Scrimp, Scruple, Skimpy, Slight, Whit), بخیلانه دادن . (various references)

French

traiter d'une manière offensante, maigre (scanty, scrawny), lésineur, lésiner sur qch., insuffisant (scanty, scarce), frugal, avare. (various references)

German

spärlich (barely, low, meager, meagerly, meagre, poor, scantily, scanty, skimpily, skimpy, spare, sparse, sparsely, thin, thinly), wenig (a little, few, less, little, little (less, not much, poco, small, sparse), mager (emaciated, fatless, gaunt, hungry, infertile, lank, lean, leanly, low fat, meager, meagre, poor, rawboned, scanty, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin, weak), knausern mit, gering (humble, insubstantial, little, low, minor, modest, poor, short, slender, slight, slim, small), dürftig (feeble, impoverished, insubstantial, lame, meager, meagre, miserable, necessitous, paltry, pathetic, penurious, penuriously, pitiable, poor, poorly, scanty, sketchy, skimpily, skimpy, slender, spare, sparse, sparsely, tenuous, thinly, unsubstantial, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

περιστέλλω (confine, reduce, restrict, stint), περιορίζω (abridge, circumscribe, confine, constrict, contain, cramp, crib, cut down, inhibit, limit, localise, localize, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scotch, stint, straiten), ανεπαρκήσ (inadequate, inefficient, insufficient, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy), ολιγοστόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקמץ (be miserly, be stingy, economize, retrench, scrimp, skimp, stint), לצמצם (contract, diminish, limit, minimize, narrow, reduce, restrict, stunt), זעום (inconsiderable, insignificant, meagre, scanty, slender, slight, spare). (various references)

Hungarian

gyér (scanty, scattered, sparse, thin), szűkös (exiguous, meagre, spare), kevés (a little, bare, be short of by, exiguous, few, little, little if any, little or no, scarce, slight, slim, tight), hiányos (defective, deficient, gappy, imperfect, insufficient, meagre, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, void, wanting), csekély (baseness, meager, meagre, nominal, paltry, petty, slight, slim, trifling). (various references)

Indonesian

memperkecil (belittle). (various references)

Italian

scarso (failing, jejune, low, meager, meagre, penurious, poor, scantily, scanty, scarce, skimpily, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparse, thin, tight, weak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"十歩百歩 (scant difference, six of one and a half dozen of the other). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"じっぽひゃっぽ (scant difference, six of one and a half dozen of the other), �"じゅっぽひゃっぽ (scant difference, six of one and a half dozen of the other). (various references)

Korean 

부족한 (insufficient, scanty, scarce, sparse). (various references)

Manx

gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scanty, skimpy, stingy), goan (address, address words, expression, meagre, rare, scarce, short, slender, spare, sparse, thin, thin of hair, tight, tight of money, utterance, word, word speech). (various references)

Pig Latin

antscay.(various references)

Portuguese

restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, confine, contract, cork, cramp, curb, hedge, inhibit, limit, manacle, narrow, put a lid on, qualify, restrain, restrict, retrench, skimp, specialize), raro (close, exquisite, infrequent, out-and-out, rare, rose, scanty, scarce, seldom, sparse, sporadic, tight, uncommon, unique, unusual, unwonted), mal fornecido, limitar (abridge, bind, border, bound, cabin, check, circumscribe, condition, confine, contain, cramp, define, dock, gaol, hedge, jail, narrow, number, put a lid on, qualify, restrict, retrench, shorten, specialize, terminate, tie, verge), limitado (close, conditioned, confined, cramped, definite, finite, hidebound, limitary, limited, narrow, narrow-minded, one-track, parochial, pokey, restricted, shoppy, short, strait, terminable), insuficiente (dissatisfactory, inadequate, inefficient, insufficient, narrow, scanty, scarce, short, slim, starveling, unsatisfying, wanting), falho (lame), escasso (close-fisted, lenten, low, meager, meagre, penurious, scanty, scarce, short, slim, spare, sparing, sparse, thin, tight), dar de má vontade (begrudge). (various references)

Romanian

sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, miserable, modest, penurious, poky, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, shabby, slender, sorry, sparing), puţin comunicativ (secret), neîndestulãtor (inadequate, insufficient, reduced, scarce, slender, small, spare), limitat (close, conditioned, finite, hidebound, limitary, limited, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, parochial, restricted, scanty), insuficient (defective, deficient, exiguous, inadequate, inadequately, inappropriate, insufficient, insufficiently, meager, meagre, poor, scanty, scarce, unsatisfactorily). (various references)

Russian 

скудный (bare, barren, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hungry, jimp, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scanty, scarce, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, thin, tight), ограниченный (blinkered, borne, bound, clannish, confined, cramped, finite, groovy, handicapped, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, limitary, limited, limited to, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow gauge, narrow minded, narrow-minded, one track, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, scanty, small minded, small-scale), ограничивать скудный, недостаточный (deficient, inadequate, insufficient, meager, meagre, short). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight), kratkog daha (short winded). (various references)

Spanish

escatimar (be sparing off, curtail, cut down, give grudgingly, grudge, pinch, scrimp, skimp, spare, stint). (various references)

Swedish

snåla på, knapp (button, exiguous, knob, low, narrow, parsimonious, scanty, scarce, skimpy, stud, tight). (various references)

Turkish

sınırlı (contracted, determinate, finite, limited, ltd, measurable, narrow, parochial, restricted, scanty, scarce, slender, stinted, Strait), yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, inconclusive, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), kifayetsiz, kıt (close, constricted, droughty, exiguous, few, lean, limited, meager, meagre, penurious, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimp, skimpy, stingy), kısıtlı (constricted, limited, narrow, penurious, qualified, restricted, scanty, stinted, Strait). (various references)

Ukrainian

урізувати (ax, axe, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, pare, scrimp, shorten, truncate), убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scanty, scraggy, skimp, starveling, stingy, wretched), скупитися (begrudge, scrimp, skimp), скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không đủ (insufficient, skimpy), hiếm (rare, rarely, uncommon), ít (dash, little, scanty, shoestring, sip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "scant": scanted, scanter, scantest, scantier, scanties, scantiest, scantily, scantiness, scantinesses, scanting, scantling, scantlings, scantly, scantness, scantnesses, scants, scanty. (additional references)

Words ending with "scant": coruscant, descant, discant. (additional references)

Words containing "scant": descanted, descanting, descants, discanted, discanting, discants, tradescantia, tradescantias. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acant, ecant, escont, ocant, rcant, sacan, Saclant, sanct, sant, scaan, scaft, scand, scanet, scang, scank, scann, Scanno, scante, scart, scata, scato, scatu, Scawn, sceny, Schatt, scient, scint, Scinto, scn, scnat, scunt, shant, skaft, skan, skand. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: canst, cants.

-1 letter: acts, ants, cans, cant, cast, cats, scan, scat, tans.

-2 letters: act, ant, can, cat, sac, sat, tan, tas.

-3 letters: an, as, at, na, ta.

+1 letter: actins, antics, ascent, cantos, cantus, centas, chants, cotans, enacts, nastic, octans, sancta, scants, scanty, secant, snatch, stance, stanch.

+2 letters: accents, acetins, actings, actions, anticks, ascents, atonics, caftans, canasta, canters, canthus, cantles, cantons, cantors, capstan, captans, carnets, cartons, casting, catenas, cations, catkins, catlins, catnaps, catnips, centals, cetanes, chasten, chaunts, cineast, conatus, contras, cratons, decants, descant, discant, incants, lancets, narcist, nascent, nectars, nutcase, octanes, octants, recants, sacaton, sanctum, satanic, scanted, scanter, scantly, secants, snatchy, stances, stannic, staunch, tanrecs, tenaces, tincals, toucans, trances, unstack, untacks.