Scanty

Adjective

 * 1) Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
 * 2) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
 * 3) * I. Watts.
 * In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
 * 1) * I. Watts.
 * In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.

Derived terms

 * scantily
 * scantiness

Thesaurus
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, arrested, ascetic, at a premium, austere, barely sufficient, callow, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, confined, constricted, cramp, cramped, crowded, defective, deficient, dwarfed, dwarfish, embryonic, exiguous, failing, frugal, hypoplastic, immature, impoverished, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inadequate, incapacious, incommodious, incomplete, infant, infrequent, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lacking, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, measly, minimal, miserly, missing, narrow, near, needing, niggardly, out of print, out of season, out of stock, paltry, parsimonious, part, partial, patchy, piddling, poor, puny, rare, restricted, scant, scarce, scattered, scrappy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, shy, sketchy, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, uncommon, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unnourishing, unnutritious, wanting, watered, watery

Translations

 * Romanian:
 * Russian: скудный


 * : karig, schaars, schraal, schriel
 * : insuffisant
 * : knapp


 * : escasso, insuficiente, raro
 * : knapp