Few and Scant

Few

Few adjective - A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number.

Scant is a synonym for few in amount topic. In some cases you can use "Scant" instead an adjective "Few", when it comes to topics like scarce, assorted, hardly any, not many.

Scant

Scant adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.

Few is a synonym for scant. You can use "Few" instead an adjective "Scant".

Nearby Words: scanty, scanted, scanting

Both words in one sentence

  • Ignore the Fanservice Mousse was so enraged that he systematically destroyed Ranma's (already scant) clothing, leaving her wearing nothing but shoes and a few centimeters of fabric on her crotch and derriere.
  • The Room was only released to a few select theatres in Los Angeles, where it received scant advertising and was slammed by critics.
  • Gratuitous Japanese TOME does this with the scant voiced lines for a few characters and attack names in "homage" to fighting games that commonly went without english voicework in localization.
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