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scant [skant] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
scant/scanty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inadequate
Synonyms: bare, barely sufficient, close, deficient, exiguous, failing, insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare, restricted, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy, thin, tight, wanting
Antonyms: abundant, adequate, ample, covering, plentiful, substantial, sufficient
Main Entry: bare
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: simple, unadorned
Synonyms: austere, bald, basic, blunt, chaste, cold, essential, hard, literal, meager, mere, modest, scant, severe, sheer, simple, spare, stark, unembellished, unornamented
Notes: bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal
Antonyms: adorned, decorated
Main Entry: deficient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: imperfect, inadequate
Synonyms: amiss, bad, damaged, defective, exiguous, faulty, flawed, found wanting, impaired, incomplete, inferior, infrequent, injured, insufficient, lacking, marred, meager, not cut out for, not enough, not make it, not up to scratch, outta gas, rare, scant, scanty*, scarce, second fiddle, second string, short, shy, sketchy, skimpy, third string, unassembled, unequal, unfinished, unsatisfactory, wanting, weak
Antonyms: adequate, ample, enough, excessive, faultless, flawless, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient, superfluous
Example Sentences
  • But in reality, creationism has made scant progress in the nation's thousands of school districts.
  • Yet, in stark contrast to other modern expansions, there are scant signs of serious wage or price pressure.
  • They postulate that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression that left behind a scant fossil record.
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Main Entry: failing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not well, weak
Synonyms: declining, defeated, deficient, faint, feeble, inadequate, insufficient, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, unavailing, unprosperous, unsuccessful, unsufficient, unthriving, vain, wanting
Antonyms: healthy, ok, rebounding, strong, thriving, well
Main Entry: few
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hardly any
Synonyms: exiguous, few and far between, imperceptible, inconsequential, inconsiderable, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, not many, not too many, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scarcely any, scattered, scattering, seldom, semioccasional, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, straggling, thin, trifling, uncommon, unfrequent, widely spaced
Antonyms: many, much
Main Entry: infrequent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not happening regularly
Synonyms: exceptional, few, few and far between, isolated, limited, meager, occasional, odd, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional, sparse, spasmodic, sporadic, stray, uncommon, unusual
Antonyms: common, frequent, often, usual
Main Entry: insufficient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not enough; lacking
Synonyms: bereft, defective, deficient, destitute, devoid, drained, dry, failing, faulty, imperfect, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, infrequent, meager, minus, out of, poor, rare, scant, scarce, short, short of, shy, thin*, too little too late, unample, unfinished, unfitted, unqualified, unsatisfactory, wanting
Antonyms: adequate, ample, enough, sufficient
Main Entry: little
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: small in size, amount
Synonyms: Lilliputian, babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hardly any, hasty, immature, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, mini, miniature, minute, not big, not large, peanut, petite, scant, short, short-lived, shrimpy, shriveled, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, truncated, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young
Antonyms: big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive
Main Entry: low
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reduced; mediocre
Synonyms: cheap, cut, cut-rate, deficient, depleted, economical, inadequate, inexpensive, inferior, insignificant, little, low-grade, marked down, meager, moderate, modest, nominal, paltry, poor, puny, reasonable, scant, second-rate, shoddy, slashed, small, sparse, substandard, trifling, uncostly, worthless
Antonyms: above, elevated, high, increased, prominent
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