Scanty vs Inefficient - What's the difference?
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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.
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
Scanty is a related term of inefficient.
As adjectives the difference between scanty and inefficient
is that scanty is somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent while inefficient is inefficient.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
* * *inefficient
English
(wikipedia inefficient)Adjective
(en adjective)- Celery is an inefficient food.
- Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.