SCANT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of scant in English scantadjective [ before noun ] uk /skænt/ us /skænt/ Add to word list Add to word list very little and not enough: He pays scant attention to the needs of his children. scant regard for the truth almost: Add a scant half litre (= almost half a litre) of milk to the mixture and stir well. Scarce, inadequate and not enough

• as few as something
• be at a premium idiom
• be thin on the ground idiom
• chronic shortage
• dearth
• gold dust
• insufficient
• insufficiently
• lack
• lacking
• like gold dust idiom
• little or nothing
• peanut
• scanty
• scarce
• scarcity
• scrubby
• shortage
• shy
• starved

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Almost (Definition of scant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

scant | American Dictionary

scantadjective [ not gradable ] us /skænt/ Add to word list Add to word list very little or not much: I paid scant attention to the movie’s plot. Scant can also mean not quite a full measure of something: Pour the batter by scant 1/4 cups onto the hot griddle. (Definition of scant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of scant

scant The legal position may be perfectly clear but it may also be forgotten, scanted, overlooked or under-emphasised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ways in which criteria have been selected and operationalised has been subjected to only scant discussion. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is scant evidence for this pheno menon, however. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, scant attention has been given to the idea that poor communication may also have an economic impact worthy of attention. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the absence of historical documents, one can first look at the scant available ethnohistorical data. From the Cambridge English Corpus Moreover, this possible situation might be reinforced by the scant view toward the future with respect to the lack of applicability analyses in most cases. From the Cambridge English Corpus Relevant practice pattern studies are scant and will be needed to confirm the validity of this model. From the Cambridge English Corpus Yiddish "grammar," as we shall soon see, must by its very nature be scant and without many rules. From the Cambridge English Corpus Here, the need to consolidate constituencies has left factions with scant room for manoeuvre. From the Cambridge English Corpus Such self-funding or privately paying residents have received scant research attention compared with those who are publicly funded. From the Cambridge English Corpus We also present the scant empirical evidence on cross-linguistic syntactic priming and underline the need for further research. From the Cambridge English Corpus Evidence from excavation is scant in this wide-ranging work, which might more accurately be described as grounded in materiality rather than archaeology. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is little mention of the significance of charcoal, and fire receives scant attention. From the Cambridge English Corpus Evidence to support such an inference is still scant. From the Cambridge English Corpus While these questions are beginning to be addressed, research is quite scant. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of scant These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of scant?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 少量的, 不足的, 貧乏的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 少量的, 不足的, 贫乏的… See more in Spanish escaso, insuficiente… See more in Portuguese escasso, insuficiente… See more in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian わずかな, 不十分な… See more az, kıt, yetersiz… See more insuffisant, peu abondant… See more escàs, insuficient… See more gering… See more nedostatečný, skrovný… See more for lidt, manglende… See more tidak banyak… See more เกือบไม่มี, มีน้อย… See more hiếm, vừa đủ… See more skąpy, ledwo wystarczający… See more knapp, ringa, minimal… See more kurang… See more spärlich… See more knapp, knepen, sparsom… See more 거의 없는, 부족한… See more обмежений, недостатній… See more scarso, insufficiente… See more Need a translator?

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