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scant    音标拼音: [sk'ænt]
a. 不充分的,不足的
vt. 减少,吝啬,限制,藐视,忽略

不充分的,不足的减少,吝啬,限制,藐视,忽略

scant
adj 1: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
"regularly gives short weight" [synonym: {light}, {scant(p)},
{short}]
v 1: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and
superficially [synonym: {skimp}, {scant}]
2: limit in quality or quantity [synonym: {scant}, {skimp}]
3: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with
the allowance" [synonym: {stint}, {skimp}, {scant}]

Scant \Scant\, v. i.
To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
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Scant \Scant\, adv.
In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
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So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
--Fuller.
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Scant \Scant\, a. [Compar. {Scanter}; superl. {Scantest}.]
[Icel. skamt, neuter of skamr, skammr, short; cf. skamta to
dole out, to portion.]
1. 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.
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His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.
--Ridley.
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2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
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Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. --Shak.
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Syn: See under {Scanty}.
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Scant \Scant\, n.
Scantness; scarcity. [R.] --T. Carew.
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Scant \Scant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scanted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Scanting}.]
1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as,
to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use
of necessaries.
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Where a man hath a great living laid together and
where he is scanted. --Bacon.
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I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your
actions. --Dryden.
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2. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to
curtail. "Scant not my cups." --Shak.
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163 Moby Thesaurus words for "scant":
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate,
angustisellate, angustiseptal, arrested, ascetic, austere,
bankrupt in, bare of, begrudge, bereft of, bound, callow,
cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, close,
close-fitting, condition, confine, confined, constricted, contain,
copyright, cramp, cramped, crowded, defective, deficient,
denuded of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, discipline,
draw the line, dwarfed, dwarfish, embryonic, empty of, exiguous,
failing, famish, for want of, forlorn of, frugal, grudge,
hedge about, hypoplastic, immature, impoverished, in arrear,
in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of,
inadequate, incapacious, incommodious, incomplete, infant,
infrequent, insufficiency, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune,
lacking, lean, limit, limited, live upon nothing, meager, mean,
miserly, missing, moderate, narrow, near, needing, niggard,
niggardly, out of, out of pocket, paltry, parsimonious, part,
partial, patchy, patent, paucity, piddling, pinch, pinch pennies,
poor, poverty, puny, qualify, rare, register, restrain, restrict,
restricted, save-all, scamp, scant of, scanty, scarce, scarceness,
scattered, scrappy, scrawny, screw, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy,
seldom met with, seldom seen, short, short of, shy, shy of,
sketchy, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small,
spare, sparing, sparse, specialize, spotty, sprinkled, starvation,
starve, stingy, stint, stinted, strait, straiten, straitened,
stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, unblessed with,
underdeveloped, undeveloped, unnourishing, unnutritious,
unpossessed of, void of, wanting, watered, watery


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  • SCANT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency
  • SCANT Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    SCANT definition: barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate See examples of scant used in a sentence
  • SCANT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    You use scant to indicate that there is very little of something or not as much of something as there should be She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car forces that have shown scant respect for Red Cross markings or U N flags There is scant evidence of strong economic growth to come
  • SCANT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    Almost (Definition of scant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
  • Scant - definition of scant by The Free Dictionary
    1 scarcely sufficient; limited: he paid her scant attention 2 (prenominal) slightly short of the amount indicated; bare: a scant ten inches
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  • scant - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    Adjective scant (comparative scanter, superlative scantest) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager Synonyms: sparse, spare a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
  • scant adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
    Definition of scant adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
  • Scant Definition Meaning | YourDictionary
    Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough A scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
  • scant - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
    scant (skant), adj , -er, -est, v , adv adj barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice limited; meager; not large: a scant amount barely amounting to as much as indicated: a scant two hours; a scant cupful having an inadequate or limited supply (usually fol by of ): scant of breath v t





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