Full and Scant

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Full adjective - Containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible.

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Scant is an antonym for full.

Nearby Words: fully, fullness, fuller, fulled

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

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Full is an antonym for scant in inadequate topic.

Nearby Words: scanty, scanted, scanting

In the film Haley actually performs a full-in; however, real-life limitations — namely, that only a scant handful of gymnasts have performed a full-out dismount since Oksana Chusovitina debuted it in the '90s — certainly make this "error" forgivable.

Source: Film / Stick It
Subverted in that ten years to a Time Lord is a scant few moments, and the Doctor's regenerations never last for a full natural lifespan anyway.

Source: Cast from Hit Points
You've only got a scant few energy tanks by this point, and to beat him you need to use Hypermode several times, each time probably eating up a full tank.

Source: Early Bird Boss

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