scantiness
State of insufficiency
Scantiness is the quality of being insufficient or barely adequate.
It describes a shortage or meagerness: the scantiness of the evidence, the scantiness of her wardrobe.
The word applies to anything lacking in quantity, coverage, or substance—from scanty clothing to scanty resources.
Deficient supply of necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- lackDeficiency or absence
shortfall · undersupply · want · deficit · poverty · privation · penury · depletion
Thinly scattered or distributed
- thinSmall in diameter
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- infrequentHappening only occasionally
- sporadicOccurring irregularly, infrequently
isolated · few · rare · uncommon · seldom · dispersed · patchy · intermittent
Deficient in quantity
- paltryContemptibly meager
- measlyContemptibly inadequate
- punySmall and weak
- skimpyInadequate in size or amount
slight · minimal · nominal · trifling · piddling · exiguous · insubstantial · negligible
Lacking any covering
- exposedOut in open
- strippedHad coverings removed
- uncoveredMade visible or known
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
stark · empty · unfurnished · uncluttered · minimalist · austere · spartan · naked
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- dearthAcute shortage of something
lack · shortfall · undersupply · want · deficit · poverty · privation · penury · depletion · need
sparse
Thinly scattered or distributed
- thinSmall in diameter
- scatteredSpread irregularly about
- infrequentHappening only occasionally
sporadic · isolated · few · rare · uncommon · seldom · dispersed · patchy · intermittent · occasional
meager
Deficient in quantity
skimpy · slight · minimal · nominal · trifling · piddling · exiguous · insubstantial · negligible · trivial
bare
Lacking any covering
unadorned · stark · empty · unfurnished · uncluttered · minimalist · austere · spartan · naked · bald
scantinessabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · copiousness · plenitude · profusion · bountifulness
scantinesssufficiency
State of being enough
adequacy · affluence · enough · ampleness · satisfactoriness