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synonyms for scantness

  • curtailment
  • dearth
  • defalcation
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • failure
  • inadequacy
  • insufficiency
  • lack
  • lapse
  • leanness
  • paucity
  • pinch
  • poverty
  • scantiness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • shortcoming
  • shortfall
  • tightness
  • want
  • weakness
  • underage
On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scantness, such as: curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, and deficit.

antonyms for scantness

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  • abundance
  • achievement
  • adequacy
  • advantage
  • affluence
  • enough
  • excess
  • lot
  • perfection
  • plenty
  • strength
  • strong point
  • success
  • sufficiency
  • surplus
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How to use scantness in a sentence

Her satin dress was a mere sheath, so conspicuous by its severity and scantness that every one in the dining-room stared.
SONG OF THE LARKWILLA CATHER
Wasn't there a good deal of talk about the scantness of some of the ladies' dresses?
POOR RELATIONSCOMPTON MACKENZIE
This was the quelling they brought, a scantness of drink that seized him.
THE HARVARD CLASSICS, VOLUME 49, EPIC AND SAGAVARIOUS
Then immediately, through the scantness of the apartment, he heard the outer bell resound.
THE PACE THAT KILLSEDGAR SALTUS
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WORDS RELATED TO SCANTNESS

  • absence
  • default
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • exiguousness
  • famine
  • inadequacy
  • infrequency
  • lack
  • meagerness
  • miss
  • need
  • paucity
  • poverty
  • privation
  • rareness
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • shortage
  • slim pickings
  • sparsity
  • uncommonness
  • want
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.