different between cramped vs scanty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æmpt/

Verb

cramped

1. simple past tense and past participle of cramp

Adjective

cramped (comparative more cramped, superlative most cramped)

1. Uncomfortably restricted in size, or financially.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

2. Overcrowded or congested.
3. Tight because of or like suffering a cramp.
4. Illegible.

Translations

English

Etymology

scant +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skænti/
• Rhymes: -ænti

Adjective

scanty (comparative scantier, superlative scantiest)

1. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
2. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious; stingy.
   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.

Derived terms

• scantily
• scantiness

Translations

See also

• meagre
• scant
• slender
• insufficient
• deficient
• scarce
• exiguous

Further reading

• scanty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scanty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• scanty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Cantys