| 单词 | scantness |
| 释义 | scantness (once / 328315 pages) n WORD FAMILY scant: scanted, scanter, scantest, scanting, scantly, scantness, scants USAGE EXAMPLES"Wasn't there a good deal of talk about the scantness of some of the ladies' dresses?" MacKenzie, Compton, Poor Relations(2012) The scantness of the vetting she received before being placed on the Republican ticket. Time(Jan 12, 2010) They hired no other servants after their arrival, which, however, struck nobody as an admission of scantness of means. Warner, Susan, A Red Wallflower(2010) n the quality of being meager Syn|Hypo|Hyper exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness 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 |
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