scantness
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Scantness — Scant ness, n. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. Scantness of outward things. Barrow. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
scantness — index dearth, insufficiency, paucity, poverty Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
scantness — scant ► ADJECTIVE 1) barely sufficient or adequate. 2) barely amounting to the amount specified. ► VERB chiefly N. Amer. ▪ provide or deal with insufficiently. DERIVATIVES scantly adverb scantness noun. ORIGIN … English terms dictionary
scantness — noun see scant I … New Collegiate Dictionary
scantness — See scantly. * * * … Universalium
scantness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage1. See EXCESS … English dictionary for students
scantness — n. scarcity, lack, state of being in short supply … English contemporary dictionary
scantness — n. Narrowness, smallness, scantiness … New dictionary of synonyms
scantness — scant·ness … English syllables
scantness — noun the quality of being meager an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes George Eliot • Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑exiguity • Derivationally related … Useful english dictionary
