Scantily vs Scanty - What's the difference?
scantily | scanty |
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.
Scantily is a derived term of scanty.
As a adverb scantily
is in a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.As a adjective scanty is
somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.scanty
English
Adjective
(er)- In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.