- scant⇄adj. 1. not enough in size or quantity; meager; poor.
Ex. a scant meal, scant consideration, scant help. Her coat was short and scant. When the canal was undertaken, he got scant recognition from de Lesseps (Edmund Wilson).
(SYN) inadequate, - scant⇄adv. (Dialect.) scarcely; barely; hardly.
Ex. His manner was scant civil (Robert Louis Stevenson). - scant⇄expr. scant of, having not enough.
Ex. She was scant of breath. - scant⇄noun scantness.
- scant⇄scant, adjective, verb, adverb.
- scant⇄v.t. 1. to make scant or small; cut down in amount; limit; stint.
Ex. Don't scant the butter if you want a rich cake. Any number of moments lacked their sovereign power to move--and not least from scanting Shakespeare's sovereign powers of language