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Synonyms for scant

Grammar : Adj
Spell : skant
Phonetic Transcription : skænt

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Définition of scant

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr "short, brief"), from Proto-Germanic *skamma- (cf. Old English scamm "short," Old High German skemmen "to shorten"), perhaps ultimately "hornless," from PIE *kem- (see hind (n.)). Also in Middle English as a noun, "scant supply, scarcity," from Old Norse. As a verb and adverb from mid-15c.
  • adj meager
Example sentences :
  • The sky was now clear, the air frosty, and my rags were but a scant protection to me.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • Of Rouquet's activities as an artist in England there are scant particulars.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • He appears to have grown fat and scant of breath when he was about thirty-six or seven.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • After the first day of the siege there was scant leisure for funeral rites.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • The meat was little better than the bread in quality, and quite as scant in quantity.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • So our own strange tragedy had, as I have said, scant attention.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • The English, especially, had but scant courtesy to expect at their hands.
  • Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • They have been treated with too scant respect in the histories of American literature.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • To her surprise this proposition met with but scant enthusiasm.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • They that be husbandmen now haue but a scant lyvinge therby.
  • Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley

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