Meaning of scant in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Very little, very few.

  Example: After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.

• Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.

  Example: a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment

• Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

verb

• To limit in amount or share; to stint.

  Example: to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries

• To fail, or become less; to scantle.

  Example: The wind scants.

noun

• A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.

• A sheet of stone.

• (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

noun

• Scarcity; lack.

adverb

• With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.