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- Dictionaryscanty/ˈskanti/
adjective
- 1. small or insufficient in quantity or amount: "they paid whatever they could out of their scanty wages to their families" Similar Opposite
plural
- 1. women's skimpy knickers or pants. informal
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Synonyms for SCANTY: sparse, scarce, scant, meagre, meager, poor, skimpy, lacking; Antonyms of SCANTY: ample, abundant, adequate, sufficient, copious, plentiful, satisfactory, generous.
- Some common synonyms of scanty are meager, scant, skimpy, spare, and sparse. While all these words mean "falling short of what is normal, necessary...
- The synonyms meager and scanty are sometimes interchangeable, but meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thin...
- In some situations, the words scant and scanty are roughly equivalent. However, scant suggests a falling short of what is desired or desirable rath...
- The words skimpy and scanty can be used in similar contexts, but skimpy usually suggests niggardliness or penury as the cause of the deficiency. //...
- The words spare and scanty are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, spare may suggest a slight falling short of adequacy or merely an a...
- Although the words sparse and scanty have much in common, sparse implies a thin scattering of units. // a sparse population
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40 Scanty antonyms. What are opposite words of Scanty? Abundant, ample, plentiful, adequate. Full list of antonyms for Scanty is here.
Synonyms and antonyms of scanty in English. scanty. adjective. These are words and phrases related to scanty. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of scanty. The beggar shivered in his scanty clothes. Synonyms. inadequate. scant. insufficient. meager. deficient. thin. slender. sparse. skimpy. small.
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Synonyms for SCANT: sparse, scarce, scanty, meager, meagre, poor, lacking, skimpy; Antonyms of SCANT: ample, sufficient, adequate, abundant, copious, enough, satisfactory, generous
