Scant

[Scant]

Scant is an adjective that means "a tiny amount," like your scant attendance at practice this week that results in being benched from the big game.

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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.

Verb
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

Verb
limit in quality or quantity

Verb
work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

superl.
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.

superl.
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

v. t.
To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

v. t.
To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

v. i.
To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

adv.
In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

n.
Scantness; scarcity.

Scant

Scant , a. [Compar. Scanter ; superl. Scantest.] [Icel. skamt, neuter of skamr, skammr, short; cf. skamta to dole out, to portion.] 1. 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.
2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
Syn. -- See under Scanty.

Scant

Scant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Scanting.] 1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
Where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted.
I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
2. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. "Scant not my cups." Shak.

Scant

Scant, v. i. To fail, of become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

Scant

Scant, adv. In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] Bacon.
So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.

Scant

Scant, n. Scantness; scarcity. [R.] T. Carew.

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.

To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

To fail, of become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Scantness; scarcity.

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Usage Examples

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Misspelled Form

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