scantiness

scant·y

S0121900 (skăn′tē)adj. scant·i·er, scant·i·est 1. Small or insufficient in amount, size, or extent: scanty rations; scanty evidence.2. Not covering a considerable amount of the body: a scanty bathing suit.

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scant′i·ly adv.scant′i·ness n.

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scantiness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliotexiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantness, poornessinadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessitiesspareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

scantiness

nounThe condition or fact of being deficient:defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage.

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scant

(skӕnt) adjective hardly enough; not very much. scant attention; scant experience. 不足的 不足的ˈscanty adjective small in size; hardly enough. scanty clothing. (尺寸或份量)幾乎不夠的 （大小或数量）不足的，勉强够的 ˈscantiness noun 幾乎不夠 缺乏ˈscantily adverbscantily dressed. 幾乎不夠地，勉強夠地 勉强地