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scanty 音标拼音: [sk'ænti] a. 缺乏的,仅有的,不够的,狭小的,节省的 缺乏的,仅有的,不够的,狭小的,节省的 scanty adj 1: lacking in amplitude or quantity; " a bare livelihood"; " a scanty harvest"; " a spare diet" [ synonym: { bare( a)}, { scanty}, { spare}] n 1: short underpants for women or children ( usually used in the plural) [ synonym: { pantie}, { panty}, { scanty}, { step- in}] Scanty \ Scant" y\, a. [ Compar. { Scantier}; superl. { Scantiest}.] [ From { Scant}, a.] 1. Lacking amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. [ 1913 Webster] His dominions were very narrow and scanty. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious. [ 1913 Webster] In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Scant; narrow; small; poor; deficient; meager; scarce; chary; sparing; parsimonious; penurious; niggardly; grudging. [ 1913 Webster] 118 Moby Thesaurus words for " scanty": 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
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