What does scanty mean?
Scanty means Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent..
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/ˈskænti/ · adjective
Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent..
A girl dressed in scanty clothing
To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain.
[…]and we cannot but regret that the imperfect morality of those days, which saw glory in the valour of freemen, rebellion only in that of slaves, should have left us but frigid and scanty accounts of so obstinate a siege.
Present on the table, one scanty pot of tea, one scanty loaf, two scanty pats of butter, two scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain.
His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
How scanty are the records of great men in India!
In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
Use scanty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scanty means Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent..
Common synonyms include skimpy, bare, meager, meagre.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A girl dressed in scanty clothing
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