Qualities
Synonyms for scant
The synonym for scant recorded in this bank is light, in the sense "less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for scant
- lightadjective, in the sense "less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for scant.
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
A scant cup of sugar.
The true synonym
light
Same sentence, swapped: A light cup of sugar.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- sketchy
- spartan
- cramped
Where scant turns up in the game
scant is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play scant
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