scant
adjective
barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate.
scanted
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past participleof scant.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof scant.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
scantadjectivebarely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate.
Example Sentences
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Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016
Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
Thus he missed, or scanted, some very basic questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the first of August the winde scanted, and from thence forward we had very fowl weather with much raine, thundering, and great spouts, which fell round about vs nigh vnto our ships.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
