Lacking vs Scanty - What's the difference?
lacking | scanty |
The absence of something; a lack.
* Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery
Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
* {{quote-book, year=1864–1865, author=Charles Dickens, title=
, passage=Present on the table, one scanty' pot of tea, one '''scanty''' loaf, two '''scanty''' pats of butter, two ' scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1979, author=by B. Jonson, title=
, passage=Traditions older than paleoarctic, as scanty as the evidence may be, show clearly that colonization of Alberta and even as far north as southern Alaska came from the south.}}
Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
* I. Watts.
As a verb lacking
is .As a noun lacking
is the absence of something; a lack.As an adjective scanty is
somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.lacking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings , did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion.
Anagrams
*scanty
English
Adjective
(er)- In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
