Scant can be categorized as an adjective and a verb.
Adjective |
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| scant - Very little, very few. | ||
Adverb |
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| scant - In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. | ||
Verb |
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| scant - limit in quality or quantity | ||
| scant - work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | ||
| scant - supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" | ||
Noun |
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| scant - A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. | ||
| scant - A sheet of stone. | ||
| scant - A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. |
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| 1. | adj. | They are scant of money. | |
| 2. | adj. | Scant difference. | |
| 3. | adj. | The volunteer firefighters fought the blaze bravely, with scant regard for their own safety. | |
| 4. | adj. | "Have you heard about panpsychism?" "No, what's that?" "It's the idea that everything, at some level, has the aspect of mind." "You mean even this pillow?" "Yeah, at a scant level maybe, even that pillow has some mind. It's kind of Animistic." | |
| 5. | adj. | "Frank, in pantheism, everything has some level of the aspect of God." "Don, even this pillow here?" "Yeah, even that pillow may have a scant level of godliness. It's pantheism. In pantheism, this whole universe is God." "What about panentheism?" "In panentheism, God is this whole universe and beyond it." "You're like a philosophical owl, Don! |
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| adj. | |
| They are scant of money. | |
| Scant difference. | |
| The volunteer firefighters fought the blaze bravely, with scant regard for their own safety. | |
| "Have you heard about panpsychism?" "No, what's that?" "It's the idea that everything, at some level, has the aspect of mind." "You mean even this pillow?" "Yeah, at a scant level maybe, even that pillow has some mind. It's kind of Animistic." | |
| "Frank, in pantheism, everything has some level of the aspect of God." "Don, even this pillow here?" "Yeah, even that pillow may have a scant level of godliness. It's pantheism. In pantheism, this whole universe is God." "What about panentheism?" "In panentheism, God is this whole universe and beyond it." "You're like a philosophical owl, Don! | |