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# scanty

«scanty» in Mova's school dictionary: **Small in amount; not enough, or only just enough** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (scantier, scantiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Small in amount; not enough, or only just enough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanty/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories food, grass or information is scanty, so there is little of it

### examples

- "Such scanty fare is not fit for a Heron." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanty/#x1)
- The Greek poets offer but scanty allusions to Erebus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanty/#x2)
- There is only scanty grass on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanty/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; if a problem says an amount is scanty, the number is small, so the total is low

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scanty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scanty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.