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What is the adjective for scant?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb scant which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

scant
  1. Very little, very few.
  2. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
  3. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. meagre, insufficient, scanty, inadequate, sparse, scarce, paltry, deficient, meager, skimpy, limited, exiguous, measly, small, negligible, poor, short, little, minimal, insubstantial, wanting, slight, spare, inconsiderable, inappreciable, slender, stingy, slim, sparing, light, thin, minimum, skimp, few, miserable, bare, puny, weak, barren, scrimpy, tenuous, unfinished, flimsy, unproductive, shabby, subtle, mere, infertile, scrimp, unfruitful … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “We had only a scant amount of wood with which to do our cooking.”
scanty
  1. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
  2. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. meagre, scant, inadequate, insufficient, sparse, paltry, scarce, meager, skimpy, deficient, limited, measly, exiguous, negligible, poor, small, minimal, little, spare, stingy, light, sparing, piddling, slender, slim, wanting, modest, restricted, thin, rare, pathetic, skimp, shy, tiny, bare, mingy, failing, tight, scrimpy, sketchy, thinning, flimsy, narrow, close, in short supply, not enough, few and far between, thin on the ground, too little, hand-to-mouth … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “His scanty remarks are limited to generalities.”
      “Villagers must show respect by not wearing scanty dress, and by not speaking or laughing boisterously.”
      “Blake, Tintori, and Hagdorn and Blake and Hagdorn restudied the scanty Triassic record in light of that of the late Paleozoic.”
scanted
  1. (archaic) Diminished; restricted. [from 16th c.]
scantier
  1. comparative form of scanty: more scanty
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meagrer, scanter, sparser, paltrier, scarcer, meagerer, skimpier, measlier, poorer, smaller, less, sparer, stingier, lighter, slenderer, slimmer, thinner, shier, tinier, barer, mingier, tighter, sketchier, flimsier, narrower, closer, in shorter supply, fewer and farther between, thinner on the ground, more inadequate, more insufficient, more deficient, more limited, more exiguous, more negligible, more minimal, more sparing, more wanting, more modest, more restricted, more rare, more pathetic, more skimp, more insubstantial, shorter, slighter, more inconsiderable, more insignificant, more trifling, lower … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A little later the sub-deacon wore a tunicle, which was a scantier dalmatic.”
      “Yet the resources devoted to them are much scantier than those offered in psychiatric hospitals. Much the same applies to young adults.”
      “The writer's scant interest in the law was even scantier after that review.”
scantiest
  1. superlative form of scanty: most scanty
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meagrest, scantest, sparsest, paltriest, scarcest, meagerest, skimpiest, measliest, poorest, smallest, least, sparest, stingiest, lightest, slenderest, slimmest, thinnest, shiest, tiniest, barest, mingiest, tightest, sketchiest, flimsiest, narrowest, closest, in shortest supply, fewest and farthest between, thinnest on the ground, most inadequate, most insufficient, most deficient, most limited, most exiguous, most negligible, most minimal, most sparing, most wanting, most modest, most restricted, most rare, most pathetic, most skimp, most insubstantial, shortest, slightest, most inconsiderable, most insignificant, most trifling, lowest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The Kentish region, settled by the Jutes from Jutland, has the scantiest literary remains.”
      “In the first place, the merits of The regicide are of the scantiest.”
scanter
  1. comparative form of scant: more scant
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meagrer, scantier, sparser, scarcer, paltrier, meagerer, skimpier, measlier, smaller, poorer, shorter, less, slighter, sparer, slenderer, stingier, slimmer, lighter, thinner, miserabler, barer, punier, weaker, barrener, flimsier, shabbier, subtler, merer, more insufficient, more inadequate, more deficient, more limited, more exiguous, more negligible, more minimal, more insubstantial, more wanting, more inconsiderable, more sparing, more skimp, more tenuous, more unproductive, more infertile, more scrimp, more unfruitful, more lacking, more modest, lower, more restricted, more trifling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “All the time as we went Bridget talked incessantly, although she became scanter and scanter of breath.”
      “Islands have proportionately a scanter allowance of fertile alluvial lowlands than have continents.”
      “While the other war, in Afghanistan, does go on, it draws ever scanter attention.”
scantest
  1. superlative form of scant: most scant
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meagrest, scantiest, sparsest, scarcest, paltriest, meagerest, skimpiest, measliest, smallest, poorest, shortest, least, slightest, sparest, slenderest, stingiest, slimmest, lightest, thinnest, miserablest, barest, puniest, weakest, barrenest, flimsiest, shabbiest, subtlest, merest, most insufficient, most inadequate, most deficient, most limited, most exiguous, most negligible, most minimal, most insubstantial, most wanting, most inconsiderable, most sparing, most skimp, most tenuous, most unproductive, most infertile, most scrimp, most unfruitful, most lacking, most modest, lowest, most restricted, most trifling … more
scanting
  1. present participle of scant
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sparing, nursing, stinting on, skimping on, economizing, saving, stinting, scrimping, pinching, skimping, economising, conserving, pinching pennies, tightening your belt, scrimping on, economizing on, rationing, withholding, limiting, budgeting, husbanding, curtailing, cutting corners, cutting back, scrimping and scrape, holding back on, making ends meet, going easy on, making cutbacks, running a tight ship, restricting, restraining, stashing, squirreling, retrenching, holding back, penny-pinching, looking after the pence, making economies, husbanding your resources, pinching the pennies, watching the pennies, cutting costs, pulling in one's horns, stretching a dollar, cutting expenditure, going easy, reducing, trimming, saving for a rainy day … more
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