Synonyms for scanty

Grammar : Adj

Spell : skan-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈskæn ti

Top 10 synonyms for scanty

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Définition of scanty

Origin : 1650s, "meager, barely sufficient for use;" 1701, "too small, limited in scope," from scant + -y (2). Related: Scantiness (1560s). Scanties (n.) "underwear" (especially for women) attested from 1928.

adj inadequate

Example sentences :

Nothing had been added to her scanty wardrobe in that time but a black frock.
Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri

By degrees, however, his eyes became accustomed to the scanty light.
Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As Baucis had said, there was but a scanty supper for two hungry travellers.
Extract from : « The Miraculous Pitcher » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

These computations were correct as far as they went, but they were scanty.
Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

The other members of the Poorhouse had scanty faith in that red flannel.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

His scanty roll of bills was in his right hand, and there concealed.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

To these scanty means of improvement, she added another of her own contriving.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

On the surface of the roads where the ground is thin, the corn is scanty.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

Grant me only the poor and scanty boon, that you would then conceive your right.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

Where they could, they robbed the Indians of their scanty stores of corn and beans.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

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