Scant is valid Scrabble Word

Is scant a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is scant valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for SCANT in dictionary:

VERB:

to cut short, to spare
provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts
deal with inadequately; neglect
To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
limit in quality or quantity
supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

limit in size or quantity

NOUN:

Scantness; scarcity.

ADVERB:

scarcely

ADJECTIVE:

scarce
barely sufficient or adequate
barely amounting to a specified number or quantity
barely sufficient, meagre
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

meager
to provide with a meager portion

Words related to SCANT

scanted10 scanter9 scantest10 scanting11 scantly12 scantness11 scants8

How to use SCANT in a sentence

But once beyond the scant shelter of the cottonwood, it was evident the wind had risen.
In 1618 he traveled on foot to Scotland, where he visited Drummond, from whom we have the scant records of his varied life.
And the flock very naturally as a whole had scant affection for Mr.
The scant supply of whiskey they had brought was for an emergency.
If a man will marry the prettiest girl of the year he must be satisfied with such scant civility as conscious perfection may give him.
Into it she poured four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, added a scant half teaspoonful of salt with a dash of red pepper which she stirred until the salt was dissolved.
With regard to the girls, I am afraid they received but scant consideration.
Scant leisure had they who wot how to serve the ladies.
As with the Indians, his cross-examination had borne scant results.
Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant, Nor did their minds an equal banquet want.

Luther, several of whose manuscripts are in the Library, published a vigorous reply, in which he treated his royal opponent with scant ceremony.
Then without a sound she dropped in the scant shadow of a rock.
Davis and his companions prisoners, and they were taken before Commandant Schalk-Burger, who received them with scant courtesy at first.
But here David found housing commensurate to his scant purse.
And Stoughton, the principal victim, found scant sympathy.
She was out of the world, the only world she knew, and by reason of the distance and the snows there was scant chance of getting back to that world while winter gripped the North.
But each morning, as the cowboy cooked his scant breakfast, he would see, standing a few hundred rods away, Black Eagle, patiently waiting for the chase to be resumed.
The horses were turned loose to fare for what scant grass grew on bench and slope.
No cheer, no glow, no sparkle! Perhaps it was owing to scant and poor wood.
Here and there a projecting ledge offered a scant foothold, but mostly the face of the cliff was one vast, frowning rock that rose almost perpendicularly.
Beyond these scant details, nothing is known of his life.
She passed her fingers along her temples in search of small disorders in the scant tufts of her hair, put on her glasses, and took the fan.
I was not long delayed by the customs officers, for I carried but a scant supply of luggage.
Suddenly there was whispered alarm up and down the long line of watchers, and they hurried away to drag clothing, cooking utensils and scant provisions through the streets.
Their floe was at last reduced from a great sheet of ice, perhaps a mile or more square, to a scant ten yards by seventy-five, and this rapidly breaking up.
No pictures, and but scant descriptions of this pioneer craft, are obtainable at the present time.
He was also charged with furnishing a scant diet to his pupil boarders, keeping them on porridge and pudding, though their parents were paying for better fare.
Never to have felt the force of the difficulty is not so much the sign of steadfast faith as of scant reflection.

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