English-Finnish translations for scant

• niukka
  Olen samaa mieltä hänen kanssaan siitä, että Tanskan ehdotuksesta puuttuu kunnianhimoa ja että sen sisältö on niukka. I agree with his criticism of the Danish proposal's lack of ambition and scant substance.

Definition of scant

• Very little, very few
• Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough
• Sparing; parsimonious; chary
• To limit in amount or share; to stint
• To fail, or become less; to scantle
• A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level
• A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size
• With difficulty; scarcely; hardly
• Scarcity; lack

Examples

• After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
• a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
• to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
• The wind scants.

Related words

• scanty
• scantily
• descant
• discant
• scantiness
• miscanthus
• coruscant
• scanty terse
• requiescant in pace