Thesaurus / scant
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Such drill holes augment the scant fossil record of octopus evolution.
PREDATORY OCTOPUSES WERE DRILLING INTO CLAMSHELLS AT LEAST 75 MILLION YEARS AGOCAROLYN GRAMLINGMARCH 2, 2021SCIENCE NEWSDetails about the project are scant, but here’s what we know about it.
DARPA’S NEW COMBAT DRONES COULD CATCH A RIDE FROM OTHER AIRCRAFTROB VERGERFEBRUARY 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCESo far, however, there’s scant detail on what this pivot actually means beyond what’s been teased in the video used to launch the partnership.
WHY ADIDAS TREATS ESPORTS DEALS LIKE MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS, NOT SPONSORSHIP DEALSSEB JOSEPHJANUARY 18, 2021DIGIDAYThere’s scant clinical evidence that a 12-week gap will be as effective as a 21-day one.
THE U.K. IS DELAYING THE SECOND DOSE OF COVID VACCINES TO 12 WEEKS. IS THAT EVEN SAFE?KATHERINE DUNNJANUARY 12, 2021FORTUNETheir actions drew scant condemnation from Western politicians.
CHINA HAS REACTED TO THE STORMING OF THE U.S. CAPITOL BY COMPARING IT TO THE WRECKING OF HONG KONG'S LEGISLATUREAMY GUNIA / HONG KONGJANUARY 11, 2021TIMEHistory gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNThe big gray sedan carrying Delancy and his pals, hit the suburban town at a scant seventy miles an hour.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSBut, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDOn arriving he tendered the driver sixpence, which was strictly the fare, though but scant remuneration for the distance.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThese flats were free from stones and covered with a scant growth of cottonwoods and pions.
MOTOR MATT'S "CENTURY" RUNSTANLEY R. MATTHEWSWORDS RELATED TO SCANT
- bereft
- defective
- deficient
- destitute
- devoid
- drained
- dry
- failing
- faulty
- imperfect
- inadequate
- incapable
- incommensurate
- incompetent
- incomplete
- infrequent
- meager
- minus
- out of
- poor
- rare
- scant
- scarce
- short
- short of
- shy
- thin
- too little too late
- unample
- unfinished
- unfitted
- unqualified
- unsatisfactory
- wanting
- Lilliputian
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- cramped
- diminutive
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- limited
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- not big
- not large
- peanut
- petite
- scant
- short
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undersized
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
- bare
- barren
- deficient
- exiguous
- flimsy
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infertile
- insubstantial
- insufficient
- little
- mere
- minimum
- miserable
- paltry
- puny
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- scanty
- scrimp
- scrimpy
- shabby
- short
- skimp
- skimpy
- slender
- slight
- spare
- sparse
- subtle
- tenuous
- too little too late
- unfinished
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wanting
- weak
- attenuated
- circumscribed
- close
- compressed
- confining
- constricted
- contracted
- cramped
- definite
- determinate
- exclusive
- exiguous
- fine
- fixed
- incapacious
- limited
- linear
- meager
- near
- paltry
- pent
- pinched
- precarious
- precise
- scant
- scanty
- select
- set
- shrunken
- slender
- slim
- small
- spare
- strait
- taper
- tapered
- tapering
- thin
- threadlike
- tight
- attenuated
- circumscribed
- close
- compressed
- confining
- constricted
- contracted
- cramped
- definite
- determinate
- exclusive
- exiguous
- fine
- fixed
- incapacious
- limited
- linear
- meager
- near
- paltry
- pent
- pinched
- precarious
- precise
- scant
- scanty
- select
- set
- shrunken
- slender
- slim
- small
- spare
- strait
- taper
- tapered
- tapering
- thin
- threadlike
- tight
- affront
- brush aside
- brush off
- condemn
- depreciate
- despise
- detest
- discount
- disdain
- dismiss
- disregard
- have nothing to do with
- ignore
- keep at arm's length
- keep one's distance
- laugh off
- let go
- live with
- make light of
- not care for
- overlook
- pass by
- pass over
- pass up
- pay no attention to
- pay no mind
- pretermit
- rebuff
- reject
- scant
- scorn
- shrug off
- slight
- slur
- spurn
- tune out
- underestimate
- affronts
- brushes aside
- brushes off
- condemns
- depreciates
- despises
- detests
- discounts
- disdains
- dismisses
- disregards
- has nothing to does with
- ignores
- keeps at arm's length
- keeps one's distance
- laughs off
- let goes
- lives with
- makes light of
- not cares for
- overlooks
- passes by
- passes over
- passes up
- pays no attention to
- pays no mind
- pretermits
- rebuffs
- rejects
- scants
- scorns
- shrug off
- slights
- slurs
- spurns
- tunes out
- underestimates
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.