scant
scant is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adverb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
- superlative. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
- transitive verb. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
- transitive verb. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
- intransitive verb. To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
- adverb. In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
- noun. Scantness; scarcity.
- verb. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
"sting with the allowance"
- verb. limit in quality or quantity
- verb. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- adjective. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
"a light pound"
"a scant cup of sugar"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scant:
Common word forms
scants, scanted, scanter, scantly, scantest, scanting, scantity, scantness
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