scanty
Meaning of scanty
adjective
- small or insufficient in quantity or amount.
they paid whatever they could out of their scanty wages to their families
plural noun
women's skimpy knickers or pants.
late 16th century: from scant + -y1.
Information about scanty
- The plural form of scanty is: scanties.
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Hyphenation of scanty
scanty
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- scanty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
scanty synonyms
Meaning bare:
Meaning pantie:
Meaning (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality:
Meaning barely sufficient or adequate:
Meaning of a minimum amount, quantity, or degree; negligible:
Meaning restricted in size, amount, or extent; few, small, or short:
Meaning (of an amount, rate, or level) relatively moderate, limited, or small:
Meaning limited in extent, number, scope, or action:
Meaning thinly dispersed or scattered:
Meaning very small:
Meaning of a size that is less than normal or usual:
Meaning (of an amount) very small or meagre:
Meaning so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant:
Meaning not enough; inadequate:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient:
Meaning not thorough or detailed:
Meaning lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society:
Meaning with opposite surfaces or sides that are close or relatively close together:
Meaning make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous:
Meaning (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand:
Meaning ridiculously small or few:
Meaning pathetically trivial; trifling:
Meaning mean:
Meaning arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness:
Meaning very small in size or amount:
scanty antonyms
Meaning existing or available in large quantities; plentiful:
Meaning enough or more than enough; plentiful:
Meaning existing in or yielding great quantities; abundant:
Translation of scanty
Words that rhyme with scanty
banty, Canty, canty, unscanty, sergeanty, serjeanty, chanty, khanty, shanty, janty, Delanty, slanty, manty, osteomanty, panty, Duranty, curranty, guaranty, nonguaranty, quaranty, ranty, reguaranty, sovranty, warranty, peasanty, santy, wanty, Bryanty, bezanty
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