Starved vs Scanty - What's the difference?
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Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
(colloquial) Extremely hungry.
(starve)
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.
As adjectives the difference between starved and scanty
is that starved is approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished while scanty is somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.As a verb starved
is past tense of starve.starved
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm starved , I haven't eaten since breakfast.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*scanty
English
Adjective
(er)- In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.