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Scanter vs Scanted - What's the difference?

scanter | scanted |

As adjectives the difference between scanter and scanted

is that scanter is (scant) while scanted is (archaic) diminished; restricted.

As a verb scanted is

(scant).

scanter

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (scant)

    • Anagrams

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    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

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    scanted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scant)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Diminished; restricted.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight; / Use '''scanted diet, and forbeare your fill […].
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
    • " their generations are neither extinct nor scanted , but are as plentiful as any Creatures on the Land."