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scant 音标拼音: [sk'ænt] a. 不充分的,不足的
vt. 减少,吝啬,限制,藐视,忽略 不充分的,不足的减少,吝啬,限制,藐视,忽略 scant adj 1: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; " a light pound"; " a scant cup of sugar"; " regularly gives short weight" [ synonym: { light}, { scant( p)}, { short}] v 1: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially [ synonym: { skimp}, { scant}] 2: limit in quality or quantity [ synonym: { scant}, { skimp}] 3: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; " sting with the allowance" [ synonym: { stint}, { skimp}, { scant}] Scant \ Scant\, v. i. To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants. [ 1913 Webster]
Scant \ Scant\, adv. In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [ Obs.] -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster]
Scant \ Scant\, a. [ Compar. { Scanter}; superl. { Scantest}.] [ Icel. skamt, neuter of skamr, skammr, short; cf. skamta to dole out, to portion.] 1. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment. [ 1913 Webster] His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour. -- Ridley. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary. [ 1913 Webster] Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See under { Scanty}. [ 1913 Webster]
Scant \ Scant\, n. Scantness; scarcity. [ R.] -- T. Carew. [ 1913 Webster]
Scant \ Scant\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Scanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Scanting}.] 1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries. [ 1913 Webster] Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. " Scant not my cups." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 163 Moby Thesaurus words for " scant": Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, arrested, ascetic, austere, bankrupt in, bare of, begrudge, bereft of, bound, callow, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, close, close- fitting, condition, confine, confined, constricted, contain, copyright, cramp, cramped, crowded, defective, deficient, denuded of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, discipline, draw the line, dwarfed, dwarfish, embryonic, empty of, exiguous, failing, famish, for want of, forlorn of, frugal, grudge, hedge about, hypoplastic, immature, impoverished, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incapacious, incommodious, incomplete, infant, infrequent, insufficiency, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lacking, lean, limit, limited, live upon nothing, meager, mean, miserly, missing, moderate, narrow, near, needing, niggard, niggardly, out of, out of pocket, paltry, parsimonious, part, partial, patchy, patent, paucity, piddling, pinch, pinch pennies, poor, poverty, puny, qualify, rare, register, restrain, restrict, restricted, save- all, scamp, scant of, scanty, scarce, scarceness, scattered, scrappy, scrawny, screw, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, specialize, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, starve, stingy, stint, stinted, strait, straiten, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpossessed of, void of, wanting, watered, watery
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