Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
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.
- 2superlative
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
- 3transitive verb
To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
- 4transitive verb
To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
- 5intransitive verb
To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
- 6adverb
In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
- 7noun
Scantness; scarcity.
- 8verb
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
"sting with the allowance"
- 9verb
limit in quality or quantity
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- 10verb
work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
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- 11adjective
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
"a light pound"
"a scant cup of sugar"
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