scanty

scanty is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
2. adjective. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
3. adjective. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
4. noun. short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

   Synonyms: pantie, panty

5. adjective. lacking in amplitude or quantity

   "a bare livelihood"

   "a scanty harvest"

   Synonyms: bare, spare

Synonyms

pantie, panty, bare, spare

Common word forms

scantier, scanties, scantily, scantiest

Words from these letters

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