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Synonyms for scantiness
scant·i·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
scantiness
Synonyms:
dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, wantAntonyms:
dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness
Princeton's WordNet
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguitynoun
the quality of being meager
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
Synonyms:
leanness, meagerness, thinness, poorness, impoverishment, spareness, exiguity, meagreness, poverty, scantness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
scantinessnoun
Synonyms:
insufficiency, meagreness, narrowness, deficiency, short supply, short measure
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #183 | need | |
| #254 | want | |
| #1779 | economy | |
| #2278 | failure | |
| #2498 | lack | |
| #3761 | poverty | |
| #10327 | defect | |
| #10765 | deficiency | |
| #31954 | insufficiency | |
| #43809 | inadequacy | |
| #47177 | dearth | |
| #55818 | shortcoming | |
| #84828 | impoverishment | |
| #95106 | frugality | |
| #95248 | destitution | |
| #98429 | thinness | |
| #216474 | leanness |
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