scantness

scantness
scant ADJECTIVE 1) barely sufficient or adequate. 2) barely amounting to the amount specified.
VERB chiefly N. Amer. provide or deal with insufficiently.
DERIVATIVES scantly adverb scantness noun.
ORIGIN Old Norse, 'short' .

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  • Scantness — Scant ness, n. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. Scantness of outward things. Barrow. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scantness — index dearth, insufficiency, paucity, poverty Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • scantness — noun see scant I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • scantness — See scantly. * * * …   Universalium

  • scantness — noun The property of being scant …   Wiktionary

  • scantness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage1. See EXCESS …   English dictionary for students

  • scantness — n. scarcity, lack, state of being in short supply …   English contemporary dictionary

  • scantness — n. Narrowness, smallness, scantiness …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • scantness — scant·ness …   English syllables

  • scantness — noun the quality of being meager an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes George Eliot • Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑exiguity • Derivationally related …   Useful english dictionary

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