Definitions for scant

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scant scant

Spelling: [skant]

IPA: /skænt/

Scant is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in scant (acnst).

Definitions for scant

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 scant

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

Examples for scant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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