Related forms: scant⋅i⋅ly, adverb
scant⋅i⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1, 2. Scanty, meager, sparse refer to insufficiency or deficiency in quantity, number, etc. Scanty denotes smallness or insufficiency of quantity, number, supply, etc.: a scanty supply of food. Meager indicates that something is poor, stinted, or inadequate: meager fare; a meager income. Sparse applies particularly to that which grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, often over a wide area: sparse vegetation; a sparse population.
Antonyms:
1, 2. plentiful, ample.
[skan-tee] 
adjective, scant⋅i⋅er, scant⋅i⋅est. noun, plural scant⋅ies.
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