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scanted

scanted is the simple past and past participle of scant.

Meaning of scant

Verb

scant (third-person singular simple present scants, present participle scanting, simple past and past participle scanted)

  1. (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
    • to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
  2. (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
    • The wind scants.

See all 12 meanings of scant

Adjective

scanted (comparative more scanted, superlative most scanted)

  1. (archaic) Diminished; restricted.
    • Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight; / Use scanted diet, and forbeare your fill […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • […] their generations are neither extinct nor scanted, but are as plentiful as any Creatures on the Land.1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67

Forms of scanted

comparativemore scanted
superlativemost scanted

Words formed from scanted

Questions about scanted

What does scanted mean?
Scanted means diminished; restricted.
What is scanted the simple past and past participle of?
Scanted is the simple past and past participle of scant.
What part of speech is scanted?
Scanted is an adjective.

Words near scanted in the dictionary

  1. scansoriopterygids
  2. scansorious
  3. scansorius
  4. scant
  5. scante
  6. scanted
  7. scanter
  8. scantest
  9. Scanticook
  10. scantier
  11. scanties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scanted (page history and authors); scant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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