English noun: scantiness | |||
1. | scantiness (attribute) the quality of being meager | ||
Samples | An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes. | ||
Synonyms | exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness, wateriness | ||