Definition of Scant

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Definition of Scant

Scant

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.

Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.

To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.

To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Scantness; scarcity.

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Scant Quotations

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Elizabeth I

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Brent Scowcroft

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
James Loeb

Scant Translations

scant in German is knausern mit
scant in Italian is scarso
scant in Spanish is cenido, escatimar

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