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Scant vs Stinted - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between scant and stinted

is that scant is a slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size while stinted is constrained; restrained; confined.

As adjectives the difference between scant and stinted

is that scant is very little, very few while stinted is constrained; restrained; confined.

As verbs the difference between scant and stinted

is that scant is to limit in amount or share; to stint while stinted is past tense of 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)
  • 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

    * (English Citations of "scant")

    Adverb

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

    Anagrams

    * *

    stinted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
  • * c.1846-1848 , , Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
    • Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.
  • * 1853 , Currer Bell ( , Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
    • Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
  • * 1890 , , Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
    • Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stint)

    • Anagrams

    * dentist