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 →

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 →
• The Greek poets offer but scanty allusions to Erebus. tree →
• There is only scanty grass on the hill. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.