Definition for Scant:

• To limit; stint; become scanty; lessen; fail.

Synonyms for Scant:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • short,
  • light.
  •deficient (adjective)
  • not enough,
  • incomplete.
  •few (adjective)
  • inconsiderable,
  • trifling,
  • scarcely any,
  • few and far between,
  • piddling,
  • several,
  • few,
  • middling.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • insufficient,
  • too little too late,
  • out of,
  • short of.
  •little (adjective)
  • tiny,
  • hardly any,
  • least,
  • smallish,
  • wee.
  •meager (adjective)
  • flimsy,
  • deficient,
  • scanty,
  • thin,
  • stingy,
  • short,
  • wanting,
  • scrimpy,
  • insufficient,
  • scrimp,
  • sparse,
  • little,
  • shabby,
  • barren,
  • infertile,
  • mere,
  • unfinished,
  • unfruitful,
  • inconsiderable,
  • slender,
  • weak,
  • paltry,
  • puny,
  • insubstantial,
  • inappreciable,
  • skimpy,
  • subtle,
  • tenuous,
  • unproductive,
  • bare,
  • minimum,
  • slight,
  • skimp,
  • miserable,
  • exiguous,
  • poor,
  • too little too late,
  • spare.
  •narrow (adjective)
  • Incapacious.
  •short (adjective)
  • niggardly,
  • short.
  •small (adjective)
  • delicate,
  • minute,
  • miserly,
  • sparing,
  • miniature,
  • wee,
  • minimal,
  • scanty,
  • spare,
  • stingy,
  • picayune,
  • bantam,
  • piddling,
  • slight,
  • smallish,
  • paltry,
  • meager,
  • puny,
  • teeny,
  • diminutive,
  • petite,
  • nugatory,
  • minor,
  • weeny,
  • itty-bitty,
  • scrawny,
  • dwarfish,
  • short,
  • compact,
  • tiny,
  • deficient,
  • small,
  • teeny-weeny,
  • trifling,
  • niggardly,
  • ungenerous,
  • pocket,
  • negligible,
  • slim,
  • modest,
  • baby,
  • beggarly,
  • little,
  • toy,
  • microscopic,
  • teensy.

• n.

  •
  • few,
  • only,
  • barely,
  • minimum,
  • mere.
  •
  • excess,
  • bare.
  •
  • exiguous,
  • skimpy,
  • big,
  • measly,
  • sparse,
  • poor,
  • thin.
  •scant (noun)
  • insufficient,
  • skimp,
  • stint,
  • light,
  • short,
  • deficient.
  •scarce (noun)
  • limited,
  • inadequate.

• v.

  •social (verb)
  • skimp.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • few,
  • dearth,
  • narrow,
  • minimum,
  • measly,
  • scantily,
  • merely,
  • sparingly,
  • short-handed,
  • mere.
  •
  • deprivation,
  • exiguous,
  • overstretched,
  • insufficiency,
  • limited,
  • sparse,
  • least,
  • skimpy,
  • deficit.
  •
  • barely,
  • unsatisfied,
  • bare,
  • pitiful,
  • lightly.
  •
  • minority,
  • passing,
  • miserable,
  • only.
  •
  • thin.
  •
  • low.
  •
  • tight,
  • off.
  •neglect
  • neglect.
  •skimp
  • pinch pennies.
  •Other relevant words:
  • void,
  • skimp over,
  • poorly,
  • thin person,
  • minority,
  • drily,
  • coercion,
  • deficiency,
  • impoverished,
  • faint,
  • diluted,
  • immature,
  • constraint,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • parsimonious,
  • scantily,
  • limit,
  • circumscribed,
  • alone,
  • obviously,
  • exiguous,
  • coarsely,
  • gloomily,
  • manifestly,
  • constricted,
  • restricted,
  • tight,
  • Lacunae,
  • lean,
  • near,
  • Unnutritious,
  • economize,
  • hindrance,
  • piddly,
  • restraint,
  • in want of,
  • decrease,
  • plain,
  • insubstantial,
  • loose,
  • pitiful,
  • shy,
  • infrequent,
  • down,
  • control,
  • minimum,
  • several,
  • hand-to-mouth,
  • shabby,
  • frugal,
  • skimpy,
  • scamp,
  • contain,
  • insufficiency,
  • rarefied,
  • close,
  • scarcely,
  • distinctly,
  • hardly,
  • Angustifoliate,
  • scraggy,
  • confined,
  • severely,
  • inappreciable,
  • out of,
  • undersized,
  • parched,
  • sheer,
  • chinchy,
  • unimportant,
  • lank,
  • infertile,
  • seriously,
  • Scrimping,
  • hedge,
  • empty of,
  • bound,
  • denuded of,
  • lessen,
  • modesty,
  • needy,
  • grudge,
  • poverty,
  • pinch,
  • starve,
  • devoid of,
  • paper thin,
  • underdeveloped,
  • niggard,
  • slightly,
  • subsistence,
  • short of,
  • thrifty,
  • premium,
  • middling,
  • abstemious,
  • lightly,
  • liability,
  • infant,
  • scarcity,
  • with difficulty,
  • Incapacious,
  • rather,
  • light,
  • incomplete,
  • unsatisfied,
  • meagre,
  • strait,
  • incommodious,
  • tenuous,
  • few and far between,
  • shrunk,
  • moderation,
  • unaccented,
  • short-handed,
  • austere,
  • discipline,
  • stint,
  • bare,
  • defective,
  • pathetic,
  • insignificant,
  • penurious,
  • easy,
  • dearth,
  • spotty,
  • measly,
  • deprived of,
  • famish,
  • subtle,
  • partial,
  • sparely,
  • isthmian,
  • Stinted,
  • limited,
  • unfinished,
  • tender,
  • restrict,
  • sketchy,
  • faintly,
  • neglect,
  • save,
  • below par,
  • least,
  • condition,
  • gaunt,
  • Skimping,
  • crowded,
  • skinny,
  • specialize,
  • voiceless,
  • straitened,
  • inconsiderable,
  • childbirth,
  • scarceness,
  • approximately,
  • barely,
  • only,
  • inferior,
  • tolerable,
  • hungry,
  • gossamer,
  • lacking,
  • no great shakes,
  • low-cal,
  • mingy,
  • seldom met with,
  • skimp,
  • debt,
  • bad,
  • overstretched,
  • restrain,
  • register,
  • inadequate,
  • forget about,
  • bridle,
  • slender,
  • meanly,
  • plainly,
  • Scanned,
  • paucity,
  • finespun,
  • insufficient,
  • parsimoniously,
  • nothing but,
  • jejune,
  • harshly,
  • avaricious,
  • insufficiently,
  • reduce,
  • poor,
  • unusual,
  • halfway,
  • shy of,
  • reduced,
  • narrow,
  • thin,
  • destitute of,
  • tripping,
  • unproductive,
  • sternly,
  • contracted,
  • close-fitting,
  • furnish,
  • inadequately,
  • confine,
  • isthmic,
  • powdery,
  • shortly,
  • restriction,
  • confinement,
  • essential,
  • reserve,
  • roughly,
  • hypoplastic,
  • unexpanded,
  • gimp,
  • wretched,
  • in arrears,
  • attenuated,
  • liabilities,
  • unmixed,
  • failing,
  • arrested,
  • granular,
  • not enough,
  • frigidly,
  • embryonic,
  • haggard,
  • amiss,
  • somewhat,
  • starvation,
  • stunted,
  • in default,
  • narrowly,
  • Brevipennate,
  • qualify,
  • badly,
  • basic,
  • worthless,
  • sluttish,
  • spartan,
  • excess,
  • Dwarfed,
  • hard,
  • patchy,
  • scrubby,
  • gap,
  • save-all,
  • simple,
  • be deficient in,
  • part,
  • sparingly,
  • myopic,
  • at a premium,
  • chary,
  • too little too late,
  • fine,
  • uncommon,
  • mean,
  • barren,
  • missing,
  • scattered,
  • void of,
  • at,
  • wanting,
  • pinch pennies,
  • filament,
  • chintzy,
  • lacuna,
  • few,
  • illiberal,
  • apparently,
  • passing,
  • clear,
  • curtail,
  • tightfisted,
  • in debt,
  • straiten,
  • narrow gauge,
  • undiluted,
  • lite,
  • defalcation,
  • barely sufficient,
  • rare,
  • merely,
  • gravely,
  • ascetic,
  • undeveloped,
  • watered,
  • taper,
  • thread-like,
  • miserable,
  • mere,
  • copyright,
  • patent,
  • sparsely,
  • bereft of,
  • callow,
  • unrepeated,
  • in want,
  • poor person,
  • not much,
  • sprinkled,
  • without resources,
  • Weazen,
  • scrimp,
  • clearly,
  • minimize,
  • defectiveness,
  • so-so,
  • begrudge,
  • flimsy,
  • deficit,
  • cheeseparing,
  • scrimpy,
  • grudging,
  • weak,
  • dock,
  • low,
  • seldom seen,
  • angustirostrate,
  • hardly any,
  • screw,
  • too little,
  • stark,
  • big,
  • evidently,
  • limitation,
  • deprivation,
  • Needing,
  • captivity,
  • unfruitful,
  • lid,
  • destitute,
  • unmitigated,
  • expand,
  • pure,
  • off,
  • practically,
  • just,
  • poor man,
  • coldly,
  • sparse,
  • provide,
  • watery,
  • below the mark,
  • forlorn of,
  • sole,
  • moderate,
  • compulsion,
  • unsubstantial,
  • scurvy,
  • absolute,
  • draw the line,
  • Lacunas,
  • scarcely any,
  • cramp,
  • defect,
  • scarce,
  • scrappy,
  • promiscuous,
  • in short supply,
  • cramped,
  • grudgingly.

Antonyms for Scant:

• adj.

  • meager
    ample, enough, thick, fat, plentiful, sufficient, important, significant, adequate.
  • Other antonyms:
    fat, excess, bountiful, flourishing, lavish, fruitful, thriving, plentiful, fertile, teeming, plenteous, generous, adequate, enough, sufficient, swarming, fecund, surplus, prolific, ample, satisfactory, copious, abundant, blooming, luxuriant, proliferative, tolerable, extra, rich, liberal, bursting.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abundant, adequate, ample, blooming, bountiful, bursting, enough, excess, extensive, extra, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, fruitful, full, generous, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pour, prolific, rain, rich, satisfactory, shower, significant, sufficient, surplus, swarming, teeming, thick, thriving, tolerable, proliferative.