scantly
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈskæntli/
- Hyphenation: scant‧ly
Adverb edit
scantly (comparative more scantly, superlative most scantly)
- In a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided.
- He scantly filled the bag, increasing his profits but getting dissatisified customers.
- Barely; hardly; scarcely.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16:
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.