Scanty vs Unfit - What's the difference?
scanty | unfit | 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.
Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
:Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
Scanty is a related term of unfit.
As adjectives the difference between scanty and unfit
is that scanty is somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent while unfit is not fit; not having the correct requirements.As a verb unfit is
to make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.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
* * *unfit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.