| 单词 | scantiness |
| 释义 | scantiness (once / 20101 pages) n The noun scantiness is the state of there not being enough of something. If you are facing a scantiness of food, your stomach will probably start to growl. A scantiness of fleas on your dog is a good thing, but a scantiness of food in your refrigerator isn't so great. There's also the scantiness of clothing that doesn't cover up much. For example, the scantiness of your high school prom dress might inspire your mom to hand you a sweater as you walk out the door. Scantiness comes from scant, "barely sufficient," with its Old Norse root, skamt, "short." In the 1920's, scanties was slang for "women's underwear." WORD FAMILYscanty: scantier, scanties, scantiest, scantily, scantiness USAGE EXAMPLESAfter all, perhaps the latter pair were the ones to be envied, as the heat thus engendered made the scantiness of the bedding less apparent. Consolation, Club, The Misfit Christmas Puddings(2012) If the same cannot be said of the ancient epic poems, that is because of the extreme scantiness of the existing fragments. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) Scantiness of provisions made them more eager in the pursuit, and coming up the Spaniard instantly lowered all her sails and surrendered. Thornbury, Walter, The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II...(2012) n the quality of being meager Syn|Hypo|Hyper exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness wateriness meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) abstemiousnessrestricted to bare necessities spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinnessthe property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。