scanty as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
- 2
scanty
noun
1 scanty
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).
synonyms: pantie, panty, step-in.
Dutch: panty
adjective
1 scanty
Lacking in magnitude or quantity:
— A scanty harvest.
synonyms: bare, spare.
Roget 103:
few;
scant,
scanty;
thin,
rare,
scattered,
thinly scattered,
spotty,
few and far between,
exiguous;
infrequent
etc.
137;
rari nantes [Lat.];
hardly any,
scarcely any;
to be counted on one's fingers;
reduced
etc.
v.;
unrepeated†.
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Roget 203:
narrow,
close;
slender,
thin,
fine;
thread-like
etc.
(filament)
205;
finespun†,
gossamer;
paper-thin;
taper,
slim,
slight-made;
scant,
scanty;
spare,
delicate,
incapacious†;
contracted
etc.
195;
unexpanded
etc.
(expand)
etc.
194†;
slender as a thread.
[in reference to people or animals]
emaciated,
lean,
meager,
gaunt,
macilent†;
lank,
lanky;
weedy,
skinny;
scrawny slinky [U.S.];
starved,
starveling;
herring gutted;
worn to a shadow,
lean as a rake
[Chaucer];
thin as a lath,
thin as a whipping post,
thin as a wafer;
hatchet-faced;
lantern-jawed.
attenuated,
shriveled,
extenuated,
tabid†,
marcid†,
barebone,
rawboned.
monomolecular.
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Roget 32:
small,
little;
diminutive
etc.
(small in size)
193;
minute;
fine;
inconsiderable,
paltry
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
faint
etc.
(weak)
160;
slender,
light,
slight,
scanty,
scant,
limited;
meager
etc.
(insufficient)
640;
sparing;
few
etc.
103;
low,
so-so,
middling,
tolerable,
no great shakes;
below par,
under par,
below the mark;
at a low ebb;
halfway;
moderate,
modest;
tender,
subtle.
inappreciable,
evanescent,
infinitesimal,
homeopathic,
very small;
atomic,
corpuscular,
microscopic,
molecular,
subatomic.
mere,
simple,
sheer,
stark,
bare;
near run.
dull,
petty,
shallow,
stolid,
ungifted,
unintelligent.
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2 scanty
of clothing Revealing the body:
— Her dress was scanty and revealing.
synonym: skimpy.
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