Scant
adjective
Limited; not enough or just barely enough.
We've given scant attention to his proposal
Often appears as...
- scant attention
- scant respect
adverb
Barely; hardly; not quite.
The dress scant reached her ankles
Often appears as...
- scant reached
- scant below
verb
To provide insufficiently; to skimp.
You can't scant the time devoted to researching the topic
Often appears as...
- scant on
- scant with
adjective
Limited; not enough or just barely enough.
We've given scant attention to his proposal
Often appears as...
- scant attention
- scant respect
adverb
Barely; hardly; not quite.
The dress scant reached her ankles
Often appears as...
- scant reached
- scant below
verb
To provide insufficiently; to skimp.
You can't scant the time devoted to researching the topic
Often appears as...
- scant on
- scant with
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Usually implies a failure to meet expectations or a deficiency.
Her understanding of the material was scant, frustrating the tutor.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Specific
Often used in formal or technical contexts to indicate a shortcoming.
The research provided scant evidence to support the hypothesis.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantitative Nuance
Suggests a quantity so small it's barely sufficient.
He had a scant amount of money left after paying his bills.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Usually implies a failure to meet expectations or a deficiency.
Her understanding of the material was scant, frustrating the tutor.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Specific
Often used in formal or technical contexts to indicate a shortcoming.
The research provided scant evidence to support the hypothesis.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantitative Nuance
Suggests a quantity so small it's barely sufficient.
He had a scant amount of money left after paying his bills.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Usually implies a failure to meet expectations or a deficiency.
Her understanding of the material was scant, frustrating the tutor.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Specific
Often used in formal or technical contexts to indicate a shortcoming.
The research provided scant evidence to support the hypothesis.
Pro Tip 3/3Quantitative Nuance
Suggests a quantity so small it's barely sufficient.
He had a scant amount of money left after paying his bills.
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Greening the ghetto -...
but there is scant coordination between city agents agencies on how to deal with the cumulative effects of increased traffic pollution solid waste and the impacts on open space and their approaches to local economic and job development are so lame it's not even funny but at because on top of that the richest the world's richest sports team
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What percentage of your...
James meant this as a challenge, not an indictment of scant brain usage. But the misunderstanding stuck. Also, scientists couldn't figure out for a long time the purpose of our massive frontal lobes or broad areas of the parietal lobe. Damage didn't cause motor or sensory deficits,
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The stars in those galaxies probably don't have planets around them. There's scant chance of life there -- that's because there's been no time for the nuclear fusion in stars to make silicon and carbon and iron, the building blocks of planets and of life.
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Lessons Learned From...
days a scant eleven years later there was a railroad here in Chama New Mexico now the rest of the world has moved on but here as far as the eye can see in any direction it is the authentic West and you are immersed with people who are
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John Wesley Powell: From...
heavier than the immediate peril every waking hour we have spent in the Grand Canyon has been one of toil we have watched with deep solicitude the steady disappearance of our scant supply of rations and from
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The Unconquered:...
a dose or the people of the arrow and the people of the arrow this is a group that is so far removed from the outside world that they have scant knowledge of
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Best of African Animals...
they begin the stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and they have to be
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Young Lions Attack Oryx...
They begin the stalk like seasoned hunters, using the scant cover to conceal themselves.
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Best Lion Moments: Part...
stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and
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Two Lions Take on Oryx PIPE...
stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and
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Greening the ghetto -...
but there is scant coordination between city agents agencies on how to deal with the cumulative effects of increased traffic pollution solid waste and the impacts on open space and their approaches to local economic and job development are so lame it's not even funny but at because on top of that the richest the world's richest sports team
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What percentage of your...
James meant this as a challenge, not an indictment of scant brain usage. But the misunderstanding stuck. Also, scientists couldn't figure out for a long time the purpose of our massive frontal lobes or broad areas of the parietal lobe. Damage didn't cause motor or sensory deficits,
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The stars in those galaxies probably don't have planets around them. There's scant chance of life there -- that's because there's been no time for the nuclear fusion in stars to make silicon and carbon and iron, the building blocks of planets and of life.
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Lessons Learned From...
days a scant eleven years later there was a railroad here in Chama New Mexico now the rest of the world has moved on but here as far as the eye can see in any direction it is the authentic West and you are immersed with people who are
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John Wesley Powell: From...
heavier than the immediate peril every waking hour we have spent in the Grand Canyon has been one of toil we have watched with deep solicitude the steady disappearance of our scant supply of rations and from
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The Unconquered:...
a dose or the people of the arrow and the people of the arrow this is a group that is so far removed from the outside world that they have scant knowledge of
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Best of African Animals...
they begin the stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and they have to be
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Young Lions Attack Oryx...
They begin the stalk like seasoned hunters, using the scant cover to conceal themselves.
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Best Lion Moments: Part...
stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and
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Two Lions Take on Oryx PIPE...
stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and
Example 1 of 10
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Theodore Dalrymple
English Writer
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Writer
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Srikumar Rao
Indian Educator
Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.
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Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
American Explorer
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
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Robert Christgau
American Journalist
The idea is every time I go to a show, that night or the next morning I write it down in the gig log. Sometimes they're very scant, sometimes they're very long.
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Galileo Galilei
Italian Scientist
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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Theodore Dalrymple
English Writer
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Writer
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
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Felix Dennis
British Publisher
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Srikumar Rao
Indian Educator
Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
American Explorer
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
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Robert Christgau
American Journalist
The idea is every time I go to a show, that night or the next morning I write it down in the gig log. Sometimes they're very scant, sometimes they're very long.
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Galileo Galilei
Italian Scientist
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Quentin Crisp
English Writer
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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