scanter

ADJECTIVE

inadequate

Synonyms

WEAK

bare barely sufficient close deficient exiguous failing insufficient limited little meager minimal narrow poor rare restricted scrimpy short shy skimpy slender spare sparing sparse stingy thin tight wanting

Antonyms

WEAK

abundant adequate ample covering plentiful substantial sufficient

ADJECTIVE

meager

Synonyms

STRONGEST

insufficient mere paltry scanty skimpy slight sparse

STRONG

bare scrimp short skimp spare thin wanting

WEAK

barren deficient exiguous flimsy inappreciable inconsiderable infertile insubstantial little minimum miserable poor puny scrimpy shabby slender stingy subtle tenuous too little too late unfinished unfruitful unproductive weak

Antonyms

STRONGEST

adequate ample enough important plentiful significant sufficient

STRONG

fat thick

Example Sentences

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On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.

From Time Magazine Archive

With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scant as are the traces of his labors as a legislator, even scanter are the records of his career on the bench during the six years that followed.

From Andrew Jackson by Brown, William Garrott

There's not a bourgeois couple in the land Who, should dire duty rule their severance, Could part with scanter scandal than could we.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

The farther north they travelled the scanter became the growth of pine and poplar and willow.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)