Definitions for scants

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scants scant

Spelling: [skant]

IPA: /skænt/

Scants is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in scants (acnsst).

Definitions for scants

adverb

1. Scot. and North England Dialect. scarcely; barely; hardly.

adjective

1. barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate:
2. limited; meager; not large:
3. barely amounting to as much as indicated:
4. having an inadequate or limited supply (usually followed by of):

verb (used with object)

1. to make scant; diminish.
2. to stint the supply of; withhold.
3. to treat slightly or inadequately.

Origin of scants

1325-75; Middle English (adj.) Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr short

Examples for scants

The meat was little better than the bread in quality, and quite as scant in quantity.

Had it been a scant $23.6 million, she was still more than ready to pop some victory champagne.

The sky was now clear, the air frosty, and my rags were but a scant protection to me.

Of Rouquet's activities as an artist in England there are scant particulars.

Indeed there is a pre-Hispanic ceremonial site located a scant 400 meters from the outer edge of the Otomí Lake & Villas property.

She slammed the media, saying the coverage has been scant and inaccurate.

But even if the promised money does finally arrive, there is scant guarantee it will be used appropriately.

Retailers were hammered by the scheme because checks and balances were scant in 2012, when the eBay grifting peaked.

After the first day of the siege there was scant leisure for funeral rites.

He appears to have grown fat and scant of breath when he was about thirty-six or seven.