Usually means: Barely sufficient or just enough.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word scant:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. scant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scant, scant: Wordnik
  7. scant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scant: Wiktionary
  9. scant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scant: Dictionary.com
  13. scant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. scant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. scant: Rhymezone
  18. scant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. scant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. scant: Free Dictionary
  21. scant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. scant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scant: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scanted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
adjective:  Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
adjective:  (cooking, of a measurement) Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.
verb:  (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
noun:  A small piece or quantity.
noun:  (uncommon) Scarcity; lack.
noun:  (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
noun:  (masonry) A sheet of stone.
noun:  (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
adverb:  (uncommon or dated) With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

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