Reverse Dictionary: SCANT

ADJECTIVES
1494 — FEEBLE limited in quantity or amount, insufficient, scanty → obs.
1593 — SILLY scanty, sorry, meagre, poor → obs.
1632 — WANING becoming scanty, running short
1651 — EXIGUOUS scant in measure or number; extremely small, little, diminutive, minute, slender
1712 — ILL poor in quality; of little worth or substance, scanty, famine-stricken → Sc. 
1715 — SCAWT scruffy, mean, contemptible, scanty, niggling; short of due measure → Sc.
1775 — SCIMP — SKIMP scarce; scanty
1794 — SCRIMP scanty, short in measure, straitened; niggardly → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — SCUDDY scant, too small; not having a sufficiency, penurious → Sc.
1847 — SCIMPY — SKIMPY scanty, meagre; stinted or stunted in some respect
1865 — SCRIMPY — SKRIMPY scanty, small, pinched; puny, miserable; mean, niggardly → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1867 — SCRANNY scanty or of inferior quality; poor → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1898 — ARGH scanty, insufficient → Sc. (Bk.)
1898 — BARISH scanty, rather bare → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GANT scanty → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCANTLING small, very scanty → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — SKIMPING scarce; scanty → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1908 — NABER scant, stingy, giving short measure → Sc. obs.
1942 — PIDDLING scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCARCE AS A DECENT PEN IN A POST OFFICE — SCARCER THAN A DECENT PEN IN A POST OFFICE scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCARCE AS HEN’S TEETH scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCARCE AS ICE WATER IN HELL scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCARCE AS MONEY AROUND THE STOCK MARKET scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SCIMPING scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SLACK scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SLIM scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SLINKY scarce; scanty → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1962 — MAGER scanty → Sc.
1967 — CHINTZY meagre, scanty, insufficient → Amer. dial.

ADVERBS
1290 — FEEBLY in a sorry manner or plight; inefficiently, insufficiently, niggardly, poorly, scantily → obs.
1523 — RARELY thinly, scantily → obs.
1864 — SCRIMPLY scantily → Sc.

NOUNS
1509 — PARCITY scantiness, meagreness, smallness → obs.
1588 — RARENESS thinness; fewness, scantiness → obs.
1791 — SCRIMPITNESS scantiness → Sc.
1841 — SCANT scantiness, scarcity, lack → Sc. & Eng. dial.