Needed and Scant

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Needed adjective - Impossible to do without.

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Scant and needed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scant" instead an adjective "Needed".

Nearby Words: need, needs, needy, needful, needing

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

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Needed and scant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Needed" instead an adjective "Scant".

Nearby Words: scanty, scanted, scanting

As it turns out, there actually were other survivors, scant and scattered though they be, in the Solar System, and the generation ship might not have needed to have been built in the first place.

Source: Literature / Diaries of the Disaster
American Dad was created a scant few years after FOX canceled Family Guy (Seth still had a contract with FOX, and they needed a new show since a lot of their live-action stuff was getting canceled — both justly and unjustly).

Source: Dueling Works / Western Animation

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