meaning of scant
1. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
3. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
4. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
5. To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
6. In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
7. Scantness; scarcity.
8. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the
">allowance"
Related Words
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