American English pronunciation
How to pronounce scanty
IPA transcription: [s'kænti]
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Noun
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short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)
Adjective
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lacking in amplitude or quantity
“a bare livelihood”
“a scanty harvest”
“a spare diet”
Usage examples
- Due to the scanty evidence it is unknown when it became extinct.
- After receiving a scanty schooling, he was apprenticed to a hat maker.
- Evidence for this group being monophyletic is scanty.
- The information on his Ethics is scanty.