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Definition: Scantily |
ScantilyAdverb1. N a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scantily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: ScantilySynonym: barely (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scantily |
| English words defined with "scantily": Wart hog, Wood ibis. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You expect me to believe that scantily clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, inside an elephant you were rehearsing for a play (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Scantily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scantily" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scantily": scantily clad. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scantily": scantily-clad, scantily-dressed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
scantily | 37 |
clad scantily | 36 |
clad scantily woman | 28 |
clad girl scantily | 6 |
clad picture scantily woman | 4 |
clad model scantily | 4 |
babe clad scantily | 3 |
clad pic scantily woman | 3 |
dressed scantily | 2 |
clad lady scantily | 2 |
dressed scantily woman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scantily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në mënyrë të pamjaftueshme. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оскъдно (low, meanly, sparingly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不足地 (insufficiently). (various references) | |
Finnish | niukasti (sparingly, time is short), niukalti (sparingly). (various references) | |
French | chiche (scanty). (various references) | |
German | spärlich (barely, low, meager, meagerly, meagre, poor, scant, scanty, skimpily, skimpy, spare, sparse, sparsely, thin, thinly). (various references) | |
Greek | γλισχρώσ, ανεπαρκώσ (scanty, scrimpily). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szűkösen (barely, by the skin of one's, scantly), hiányosan (barely, scantly, skimpily), gyéren (scantly, sparsely, thin, thinly), alig (barely, by the skin of one's, faint, hardly, hardly ever, imperceptibly, just, little or not at all, narrowly, only just, scarcely, slightly, sparingly). (various references) | |
Italian | scarso (failing, jejune, low, meager, meagre, penurious, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimpily, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparse, thin, tight, weak). (various references) | |
Korean | 부족하게 (insufficiently, scarcely, sparsely). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antilyscay.(various references) | |
Russian | скупо (grudgingly, meanly, skimpily, stingily), недостаточно (deficiently). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | škrto (grudgingly, meanly, tightly). (various references) | |
Spanish | parco (scanty), muy ligeramente, escasamente (barely, scarcely, sparingly). (various references) | |
Swedish | nätt (dainty, dapper, natty, neat, prettily, pretty, scanty, trim), knappt (barely, hardly, low, only just, scarcely). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | убого (baldly, meanly), скупо (grudgingly, meanly, near), мало (few, near). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Scantily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Centilly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scantily" (pronounced ska"ntulē) |
| 5 | -n t u l ē | accidentally, coincidentally, continentally, developmentally, jauntily, environmentally, experimentally, fundamentally, governmentally, horizontally, incidentally, incrementally, mentally, monumentally, temperamentally. |
| 4 | -t u l ē | anecdotally, brutally, digitally, fatally, hastily, haughtily, heartily, mightily, mortally, nattily, subtly, testily, totally, vitally, wittily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abysmally, abnormally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, diagonally, diametrically, dismally, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, morally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: anticly, catlins, nastily, saintly, scantly, tincals. | |
-2 letters: actins, antics, catlin, inlays, instal, linacs, litany, nastic, sanity, satiny, scanty, slanty, ticals, tincal. | |
-3 letters: actin, acyls, alist, anils, antic, antis, antsy, ayins, cains, canst, cants, canty, clans, clast, clays, clits, cyans, inlay, laics, laity, linac, lints, linty, litas, lysin, lytic, nails, nasty, saint, salic, salty. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: analytics, syncytial. | |
+2 letters: acylations, scathingly, synoptical, thylacines. | |
+3 letters: anxiolytics, crystalline, incessantly, inscrutably, masculinity, nonmystical, nyctalopias, playactings, satanically, sectionally, syndicalist, syntactical, tenaciously, typicalness. | |
+4 letters: acetylations, amylopectins, anelasticity, anticatalyst, anticyclones, antisocially, cartoonishly, clairvoyants, contagiously, crystalizing, cyclizations, cytochalasin, discordantly, discrepantly, dynastically, glycerinates, incautiously, inconstantly, inelasticity, insouciantly, isotonically, microanalyst, monastically, plastocyanin, polysynaptic, prostacyclin, scatteringly, semantically, synaptically, syndactylies, syndactylism, syndetically, syndicalists, synoptically, tracklayings, unhysterical. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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