Scanty
/ˈskænti/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 short underpants for women or children wordnet
Adjective
- 1 Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
"A girl dressed in scanty clothing"
- 2 Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.
"In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words."
Adjective
- 1 lacking in magnitude or quantity wordnet
- 2 (of clothing) revealing the body wordnet
Example
More examples"The rice crop was scanty this year."
Etymology
From scant + -y.