scanty
scanty is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
- 2.Sparing; niggardly; parsimonius. In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words. I. Watts.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- any
- between
- cull
- decimate
- decimation
- diminish
- eliminate
- elimination
- eradication
- exiguity
- exiguous
- far
- few
- fewness
- handful
- hardly
- here
- infrequency
- infrequent
- maniple
- minority
- number
- paucity
- quantity
- rare
- rarely
- rarity
- reduce
- reduction
- render
- sarculation
- scant
- scarcely
- scattered
- small
- spotty
- the
- there
- thin
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is scanty.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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