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scanty

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

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barren

English

Etymology

From Middle English barein, barain, from Old French baraigne, baraing (sterile; barren), of obscure origin; probably from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *bar (bare; barren), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (bare). More at bare.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?bæ??n/
  • Rhymes: -ær?n
  • Homophone: baron (in some accents)

Adjective

barren (comparative barrener or more barren, superlative barrenest or most barren)

  1. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar:
      Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,
      To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,
      The barren, touched in this holy chase,
      Shake off their sterile curse.
    I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
  2. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
  3. Bleak.
  4. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
    • 1843, William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico
      brilliant but barren reveries
    • Augusr 28, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to John Gay
      But schemes are perfectly accidental. Some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful.
  5. Mentally dull; stupid.
    • 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, ii
      Set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.

Synonyms

  • sterile

Antonyms

  • fertile
  • fruitful

Translations

Noun

barren (plural barrens)

  1. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
    The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Barner

Basque

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ba.ren/

Etymology 1

Adjective

barren (comparative barrenago, superlative barrenen, excessive barrenegi)

  1. deep
Declension

Noun

barren inan

  1. interior
  2. guts, stomach
  3. (figuratively) soul, spirit
Declension

Etymology 2

barren

  1. A particle used to give certainty or emphasis.

Further reading

  • “barren” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “barren” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Verb

barren

  1. third-person plural present indicative form of barrar

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

barren m

  1. definite singular of barre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

barren m

  1. definite singular of barre

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?baren/, [?ba.r?n]

Verb

barren

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of barrer.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of barrer.

Swedish

Noun

barren

  1. definite singular of barr
  2. definite plural of barr

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