Definitions
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Word origin
Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
Used in a sentence
“a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment”
“His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.”
“Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Meager in amount”5 letters
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