Scanty

Definition: Scanty

Scanty

Adjective

1. Lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet".

Noun

1. Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).

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

Date "scanty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Scanty \Scant"y\, adjective. [Comparative Scantier; superlative Scantiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Scanty

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.

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: Scanty

Scanty doll: nugitate no kaori (1984)

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

Books

• Demography from Scanty Evidence: Central Africa in the Colonial Era (reference)

• Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor (reference)

• Scanty plot of ground : studies in the Victorian sonnet (reference)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Tissues rich in B cells such as tonsils and lymph nodes may be undersized or scanty. (references)

Neutrophils are scanty, and the respiratory epithelium is intact in typical cases, with no evidence of cellular debris, nuclear fragmentation, or type II pneumocyte hyperplasia. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

Because rainfall is scanty and irregular, farming generally is limited to certain coastal districts, areas near Hargeisa, and the Juba and Shebelle River valleys. (references)

Nepal

They include lack of direct access to seaports (currently all products imported from third country enter through Calcutta), difficult land transport, lack of trained personnel, scanty raw materials, inadequate power (especially outside the Kathmandu Valley), insufficient water supply, non-transparent and capricious tax administration, inadequate and obscure commercial legislation and unclear rules regarding labor relations. (references)

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

Expressions using "scanty": scanty hair ♦ scanty income ♦ scanty meal ♦ scanty parenchyma. Additional references.

Beginning with "scanty": scanty-haired.

Ending with "scanty": still-scanty.

Afrikaans

karig (in short supply, scarce). (various references)

Albanian

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

Arabic 

‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏غير كاف (insufficient), ‏غث (lean, meager, meagre, pallid, prosy, sickly, thin), ‏زهيد (cheap, paltry, piddling, poor, scrimpy, small, trivial). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), късичък, оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), ограничен (close, closed, confined, contracted, finite, hidebound, illiberal, insular, limitary, limited, mean, narrow, narrow minded, one track, open, parochial, pot-bound, restricted, small minded, sparing, strict, stringent, suburban), недостатъчен (deficient, exiguous, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, insufficient, scarce, short, skimpy, slender, slim, wanting), мъничък (elvish, lilliputian, piccaninny, teeny, tiny, wee, weeny), беден (fortuneless, humble, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jejune, meager, meagre, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, pokey, poky, poor, poorly off, poverty stricken, shabby, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Chinese 

不足 (Insufficience, insufficiency, insufficient, shortness). (various references)

Czech

sporý (chunky, scrimpy, spare, stocky, thickset), skrovný (meagre, narrow, skimpy, sparse), omezený (circumscribed, dozy, fool, insular, limitative, limited, narrow, obtuse, restricted, thickheaded, tight), nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, petty, scant, slight, slim, small, thin, trifling), chudý (disadvantaged, impecunious, lean, needy, poor, thin, underprivileged). (various references)

Danish

spredt karfølgende parenkym (scanty parenchyma), acruoria (scanty formation of blood dot). (various references)

Dutch

schriel (gaunt, in short supply, scarce, thin), schraal (barren, coarse, gaunt, in short supply, infertile, lean, meager, rough, scarce, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), schaars (in short supply, rare, scarce), karig (diminutive, in short supply, little, scarce, small). (various references)

Farsi 

کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), غیرکافی (Inadequate, Incompetent, Short, Skimp), اندک قلیل . (various references)

Finnish

niukka (scarce), laiha (lean, meagre, spare, thin). (various references)

French

insuffisant (scant, scarce). (various references)

German

spärlich (barely, low, meager, meagerly, meagre, poor, scant, scantily, skimpily, skimpy, spare, sparse, sparsely, thin, thinly), 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, scantly, scarce, scarcely, scrimpy, short, skimpily, skimpy, slender, stinted, summarily, taut, tautly, terse, tersely, tight, tightly), dürftig (feeble, impoverished, insubstantial, lame, meager, meagre, miserable, necessitous, paltry, pathetic, penurious, penuriously, pitiable, poor, poorly, scant, sketchy, skimpily, skimpy, slender, spare, sparse, sparsely, tenuous, thinly, unsubstantial, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

γλίσχροσ (exiguous, meager, meagre, scrimp), μόλισ (barely, but, hardly, just, narrowly, only just, scarcely), πενιχρόσ (exiguous, jejune, meager, meagre, penurious, shabby), λιγοστός (few, meagre), ανεπαρκώσ (scantily, scrimpily), ανεπαρκήσ (inadequate, inefficient, insufficient, scant, scrimp, scrimpy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מועט (exiguous, few, little, skimpy, small, triffle), מעוט (limited, meagre, minimum, minority, paucity, poor), מצומצם (accurate, bare, contracted, limited, narrow, reduced, scarce, skimpy), מספיק בקושי, קליל (jaunty, light, nimble), קלוש (flimsy, rare, sparse, tenuous, weak), פחות (depreciation, devaluation, diminution, inferior, least, less, meagre, mediocre, minus, reduction), זעום (inconsiderable, insignificant, meagre, scant, slender, slight, spare), �"ל (humble, light, meagre, miserable, penurious, poor, spare). (various references)

Hungarian

hiányos (defective, deficient, gappy, imperfect, insufficient, meagre, scant, scrimp, scrimpy, void, wanting), elégtelen (below the line, deficient, dissatisfactory, inadequate, insufficient, scarce, underdose, unsatisfactory), gyér (scant, scattered, sparse, thin). (various references)

Italian

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

Japanese Kanji 

乏しい (destitute, hard up, limited, meagre, poor, scarce), 寡少 (few, little). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かしょう (approval, burn, Chinese merchants abroad, few, little, praise, receptacle, riverbed, scald, singing, song, temporary name, too few, too small, undeserved praise), とぼしい (destitute, hard up, limited, meagre, poor, scarce), ともしい (destitute, hard up, limited, meagre, poor, scarce). (various references)

Korean 

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

Manx

tiark (few, rare, scarce, short, sparse, sporadic, tight, tight of money), gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, skimpy, stingy). (various references)

Pig Latin

antyscay.(various references)

Portuguese

insuficiente (dissatisfactory, inadequate, inefficient, insufficient, narrow, scant, scarce, short, slim, starveling, unsatisfying, wanting), escasso (close-fisted, lenten, low, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scarce, short, slim, spare, sparing, sparse, thin, tight). (various references)

Romanian

sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, small, sterile, stingy, void), redus (backward, dense, low, obtuse, reduced, small, stupid), rar (choice, exceptional, far between, infrequent, lank, lanky, occasionally, rare, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, thinly, uncommon, unusual), ofticos (consumptive, lank, lunger, patient, ramshackle, raw boned, wasted, weak), limitat (close, conditioned, finite, hidebound, limitary, limited, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, parochial, restricted, scant), insuficient (defective, deficient, exiguous, inadequate, inadequately, inappropriate, insufficient, insufficiently, meager, meagre, poor, scant, scarce, unsatisfactorily), deficitar (poor). (various references)

Russian 

скудный (bare, barren, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hungry, jimp, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scarce, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, thin, tight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, poor, scant, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight), ograničen (confined, constrained, contracted, finite, limited, parochial, qualified, restricted, sheepish), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

parco (scantily), muy ligero (scant), muy corto (brief, scant), exiguo (exiguous, meager, meagre), escaso (bare, insufficient, limited, little, low, lower, meager, meagre, mingy, poor, scant, scarce, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparing, sparse, thin, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous), corto (bashful, brief, curt, narrow, short, skimpy, stumpy, timid), cenido (scant, scarce, skimpily, skimpy). (various references)

Swedish

ringa (call, chime, clang, dial, exiguous, humble, insubstantial, little, low, lowly, modest, peal, petty, ring, scant, slight, small, telephone, toll, trifling), otillräcklig (deficient, feckless, inadequate, incommensurate, insufficient, scarce, unequal, unsatisfactory), knapp (button, exiguous, knob, low, narrow, parsimonious, scant, scarce, skimpy, stud, tight). (various references)

Turkish

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

Ukrainian

убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scraggy, skimp, starveling, stingy, wretched), ощадливий (abstemious, canny, chary, economic, economical, frugal, housewifely, inexpensive, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving), малородючий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu (deficient, incomplete, insufficient, missing, privative, scarce, unfurnished), chật hẹp (cramp, incapacious, narrow, narrowly), ít (dash, little, scant, shoestring, sip). (various references)

angusta, angustam, angusti, angustiorem, angusto, angustos, angustum, angustus, exigua, exigui, exiguo, exiguum, ieiunas, ieiuno, ieiunos, ieiunus, infrequens, modicus, parcam, parcas, parce, parcis, parco, rarus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Scanty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canty, santy, scanet, scanky, scante, scathy, Scati, scenty, sceny, Scinto, sciny, scnat, Scotni, scunt, skanky, slanty, swanty, zanty. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: antsy, canst, cants, canty, cyans, nasty, scant, tansy.

-2 letters: acts, ants, cans, cant, cast, cats, cays, cyan, cyst, nays, scan, scat, stay, sync, tans.

-3 letters: act, ant, any, ays, can, cat, cay, nay, sac, sat, say, sty, syn, tan, tas.

-4 letters: an, as, at, ay, na, ta, ya.

+1 letter: scantly, snatchy.

+2 letters: ancestry, chanteys, cyanates, cyanites, dynastic, instancy, sanctify, sanctity, scantily, secantly, stanchly, synaptic, syncytia, tachyons.

+3 letters: analytics, antipyics, asyndetic, caryotins, constancy, contrasty, corybants, crayonist, gymnastic, hesitancy, hyacinths, insectary, intestacy, nystagmic, obstinacy, sanctuary, stagnancy, staunchly, sycophant, syncopate, syncytial, syndicate, syntactic, yachtings, yachtsman, yachtsmen.

+4 letters: acetylenes, actomyosin, acylations, anthocyans, antimycins, candytufts, chatoyants, constantly, copayments, corybantes, crayonists, cysteamine, cystinuria, dynamistic, gymnastics, isocyanate, myasthenic, nematocyst, pachytenes, postulancy, sanctimony, scathingly, subtenancy, sycophants, syncopated, syncopates, syncopator, syndactyly, syndicated, syndicates, syndicator, synoptical, syntactics, thylacines, transiency, unchastely, unchastity.