scantiness
noun
1 scantiness
The quality of being meager.
synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness.
Roget 640:
insufficiency;
inadequacy,
inadequateness;
incompetence
etc.
(impotence)
158;
deficiency
etc.
(incompleteness)
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
paucity;
stint;
scantiness
etc.
(smallness)
32;
none to spare,
bare subsistence.
scarcity,
dearth;
want,
need,
lack,
poverty,
exigency;
inanition,
starvation,
famine,
drought.
dole,
mite,
pittance;
short allowance,
short commons;
half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness,
poorness
etc.
adj.;
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity;
ebb tide;
low water;
a beggarly account of empty boxes"
[Romeo and Juliet];
indigence
etc.
804;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
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Moby thesaurus: Lenten fare, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, dearth, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, delicacy, diminutiveness, exiguity, exiguousness, fewness, inadequacy, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, infrequency, insignificance, insufficiency, jejuneness, jejunity, lack, leanness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, poverty, puniness, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant sufficiency, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortage, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, uncommonness, underage, undersize, unimportance ... show more.
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