Limited or restricted in amount. Also: = straitened, adj. 4; very small or poor.

Small in amount; limited, scanty; less than is wanted or expected; insufficient, inadequate.

Restricted in quantity, size, or amount; scanty. Obsolete.

Of fortune, means, circumstances: Limited so as to cause hardship or inconvenience; inadequate. Obsolete. Cf. straitened, adj.

Of a grant of money, a meal: Scanty. Obsolete.

Of a quantity or amount of anything: Limited, stinted; not full, large, or copious.

Such as a niggard would give; meanly small; scanty; given grudgingly.

Small or limited in amount, number, range, etc.

Circumscribed within definite limits, bounded, restricted. Of circumstances: narrow. Also in weakened sense: small, slight, low (in number or extent).

In senses of the verb: Made scant or small, stinted, diminished, restricted, etc.

Small in amount, quantity, or extent; not lavish, liberal, or profuse; scanty, limited.

made scant, limited.

Limited in quantity, scanty.

Very small in size or amount; diminutive, minute; (also) very few in number, scanty, scarce.

Not lavishly, extravagantly, or generously bestowed or spent.

Of a quantity, store, supply, or any collective unity: Meagre, slender, not ample or copious.

Not profuse.

Given or offered sparingly or with reluctance. Now rare.

Not copious; limited, restricted in quantity.

Scanty; given grudgingly; = niggardly, adj. 2b.

Scanty; barely full; bare (measure).

= scrimped, adj.

Scanty, poor in quantity or amount.

Limited in extent, number, scope, or action; confined.