Scant

Adjective

 * 1) very little, very few
 * "After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John."

Synonyms

 * few, little, slight

Antonyms

 * ample, plenty

Derived terms

 * scanty

Related terms

 * scantily

Noun

 * 1)  A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
 * 2)  A sheet of stone.
 * 3)  A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

Adverbs for Scant
dangerously; alarmingly; indecently; pitiably; inexplicably; unmercifully; shamefully; curiously; significantly; fearfully.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From, from skamt:, neuter of skammr:

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, , ,


 * Hebrew: מעט מאוד
 * Russian: недостаточный
 * Scottish Gaelic: gann

Anagrams

 * canst, can'st
 * cants