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scanty

adj
/ˈskænti/

Etymology

From scant + -y.

  1. inherited from scanten
  2. derived from *(s)ḱem-✻ — “mutilated, hornless”
  3. derived from *skammaz✻ — “short”
  4. derived from skamt
  5. inherited from scant
  6. suffixed as scanty — “scant + y”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.

    • A girl dressed in scanty clothing
    • To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain.
    • […]and we cannot but regret that the imperfect morality of those days, which saw glory in the valour of freemen, rebellion only in that of slaves, should have left us but frigid and scanty accounts of so obstinate a siege.

  2. Sparing

    Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.

    • In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.

The neighborhood

Derived

scanties, scantily, scantiness, unscanty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at scanty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01scanty02niggardly03stingily04stingy05scant

A definitional loop anchored at scanty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at scanty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA