Scanty vs Confined - What's the difference?
scanty | confined | Related terms |
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.
(confine)
not free to move
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
As adjectives the difference between scanty and confined
is that scanty is somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent while confined is not free to move.As a verb confined is
past tense of confine.scanty
English
Adjective
(er)- In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
Derived terms
* scantily * scantinessSee also
* meagre * scant * slender * insufficient * deficient * scarceExternal links
* * *confined
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.