Scant vs Scanty - What's the difference?
scant | scanty |
Very little, very few.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
* Ridley
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
* Shakespeare
To limit in amount or share; to stint.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
To fail, or become less; to scantle.
(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.
With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
* Fuller
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.
Scanty is a derived term of scant.
As adjectives the difference between scant and scanty
is that scant is very little, very few while scanty is somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.As a verb scant
is to limit in amount or share; to stint.As a noun scant
is a block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.As an adverb scant
is with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.scant
English
Adjective
(er)- "After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John."
- 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.
- Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
Synonyms
* few, little, slight * (l)Antonyms
* ample, plentyDerived terms
* scantyVerb
(en verb)- to scant''' someone in provisions; to '''scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
- Scant not my cups.
- where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted
- I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
- The wind scants .
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "scant")Adverb
(-)- So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
- (Francis Bacon)
Anagrams
* *scanty
English
Adjective
(er)- In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.