scantiness

scant·y

(skăn′tē)

adj. scant·i·er, scant·i·est

1. Small or insufficient in amount, size, or extent: scanty rations; scanty evidence.

2. Not covering a considerable amount of the body: a scanty bathing suit.

scant′i·ly adv.

scant′i·ness n.

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scantiness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantness, poorness

inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"

abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessities

spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

scantiness

noun

The condition or fact of being deficient:

defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage.

Translations

ضَآلَه، عَدَم كِفايَه

nedostatečnost

sparsomhed

Knappheit

insuffisance

skortur, vöntun

insufficienza scarsezza spilorceria

azlıkkıtlık

缺乏

scantiness

[ˈskæntɪnɪs] N → escasez f, insuficiencia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

scantiness

, scantness

n (of amount, supply, information, knowledge) → Spärlichkeit f, → Dürftigkeit f; (of piece of clothing) → Knappheit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

scantiness

[ˈskæntɪnɪs] n → scarsezza
the scantiness of her clothes → i suoi abiti succinti

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

scant

(skӕnt) adjective

hardly enough; not very much. scant attention; scant experience.

ˈscanty adjective

small in size; hardly enough. scanty clothing.

ˈscantiness noun

ˈscantily adverb

scantily dressed.

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It may perhaps be imagined that, from the scantiness of the resources of the country, the necessity of diverting the established funds in the case supposed would exist, though the national government should possess an unrestrained power of taxation.

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Nor had he to blush for the scantiness of his costume, for he saw that he was in "undress" in the highest style of that country.

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She looked at me and then turned and glanced at my arm about her, and then she seemed quite suddenly to realize the scantiness of her apparel and drew away, covering her face with her palms and blushing furiously.

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It is a most quiet, forlorn, little town; built, as is universally the case in these countries, with the streets running at right angles to each other, and having in the middle a large plaza or square, which, from its size, renders the scantiness of the population more evident.

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I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources or the difficulties of my life.

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Thus D'Artagnan entered Paris on foot, carrying his little packet under his arm, and walked about till he found an apartment to be let on terms suited to the scantiness of his means.

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The absence of any pocket at all in the usual direction, suddenly recalled to his recollection the fact that he had no waistcoat on; and this leading him to a contemplation of the extreme scantiness of his attire, he shut the door abruptly, and retired upstairs with great precipitation.

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"Five shillings, sir." He took the purse, poured the hoard into his palm, and chuckled over it as if its scantiness amused him.

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Those who know Parisian life will readily understand how a woman of her temperament suffered, and was martyrized at heart by the scantiness of her pecuniary means.

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Further in could be seen figures in dressing gowns flung open, in costumes of unseemly scantiness, some of them with cards in their hands.

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During early infancy and fetal life, most drastic effect of iodine scantiness occur on the brain (IM, 2002).

Fortification and Stability of Iodine in Bread to Mitigate Iodine Deficiency Disorder

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