Word Meanings - SCANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter

Additional info about word: 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. His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour. Ridley. 2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. Shak. Syn. -- See under Scanty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCANT)

• Beggarly
• Miserable
• poor
• stinted
• wretched
• niggardly
• stingy
• scant
• illiberal
• Few
• Scant
• rare
• lacking
• Jejune
• Bare
• thin
• weak
• barren
• sterile
• poverty-struck
• bald
• Narrow
• Straight
• straightened
• slender
• spare
• contracted
• limited
• cramped
• pinched
• close
• scrutinizing
• near
• bigoted
• tight

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCANT)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to SCANT)

• CRAMP
  A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• TIGHTENER
  That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• BIGOTEDLY
  In the manner of a bigot.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.