scant in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
- અધૂરું ⇄ scant gujarati
- માંડ પૂરતું ⇄ scant gujarati
scant in Sindhi سنڌي
- محدود ڪرڻ، ڪم ڪرڻ (گهٽ، ٿورو) ⇄ Scant sindhi
scant in Telugu తెలుగు
scant in Urdu اُردُو
- محدود کرنا ⇄ scant urdu
scant in English
- scant ⇄ adj. 1. not enough in size or quantity; meager; poor.
Ex. a scant meal, scant consideration, scant help. Her coat was short and scant. When the canal was undertaken, he got scant recognition from de Lesseps (Edmund Wilson).
(SYN) inadequate,english - scant ⇄ adv. (Dialect.) scarcely; barely; hardly.
Ex. His manner was scant civil (Robert Louis Stevenson).english - scant ⇄ expr. scant of, having not enough.
Ex. She was scant of breath.english - scant ⇄ noun scantness. english
- scant ⇄ scant, adjective, verb, adverb. english
- scant ⇄ v.t. 1. to make scant or small; cut down in amount; limit; stint.
Ex. Don't scant the butter if you want a rich cake. Any number of moments lacked their sovereign power to move--and not least from scanting Shakespeare's sovereign powers of languageenglish