[onlybeforenoun] hardly any; not very much and not as much as there should be:
I paid scant attention to what she was saying. * The firefighters went back into the house with scant regard for their own safety. * There is scant evidence for this view.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scant is tagged as adjective.
Does scant appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — scant appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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