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Scant vs Grudging - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between scant and grudging

is that scant is very little, very few while grudging is unwilling or with reluctance.

As verbs the difference between scant and grudging

is that scant is to limit in amount or share; to stint while grudging is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between scant and grudging

is that scant is a block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level while grudging is the state of bearing a grudge.

As an adverb scant

is with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

scant

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very little, very few.
    • "After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John."
  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
    • a scant''' allowance of provisions or water; a '''scant pattern of cloth for a garment
  • * Ridley
    • His sermon was scant , in all, a quarter of an hour.
  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

    Synonyms

    * few, little, slight * (l)

    Antonyms

    * ample, plenty

    Derived terms

    * scanty

    Related terms

    * scantily

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To limit in amount or share; to stint.
    • to scant''' someone in provisions; to '''scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
  • * Shakespeare
    • Scant not my cups.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted
  • * Dryden
    • I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle.
    • The wind scants .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
  • (masonry) A sheet of stone.
  • (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

    • Quotations

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    Adverb

    (-)
  • With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
  • * Fuller
    • So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
    (Francis Bacon)

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    grudging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unwilling or with reluctance.
    • her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award

    Derived terms

    * grudgingly

    Related terms

    * grudge * grudger

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of bearing a grudge.
  • * 1806 , Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments
    • Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of

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