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scantiest

ADJECTIVE

inadequate

Synonyms

WEAK

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

WEAK

abundant adequate ample covering plentiful substantial sufficient

ADJECTIVE

inadequate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

insufficient meager scant skimpy sparse

STRONG

close failing limited little narrow poor short shy spare

WEAK

bare barely sufficient deficient exiguous minimal rare restricted scrimpy slender sparing stingy thin tight wanting

Antonyms

STRONGEST

adequate enough full sufficient

STRONG

OK generous great large open strong thick unreserved unrestricted

WEAK

abundant ample plentiful

Example Sentences

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To arrive here was to find myself in the uncanniest of all valleys — a place where shared references related to food, language and architecture were swiftly replaced by what was alien and unexpected.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

To explore this process, I want to introduce a downstream extension of this principle—call it the uncanniest valley.

From Forbes • Jul. 20, 2014

Yet as the invalid spinster Lady Constance Lytton, Judy Parfitt provides the uncanniest sense of the past recaptured.

From Time Magazine Archive

St. Thomas's Eve is in certain regions one of the uncanniest nights in the year.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

His journey to America was one of the uncanniest things that had ever happened in his life.

From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)