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scanty

adjective

1 they paid whatever they could out of their scanty wages to their families | details of his life are scanty:

meagre, scant, minimal, limited, modest, restricted, sparse;

tiny, small, paltry, negligible, insufficient, inadequate, deficient, sketchy, too small/little/few, not enough, poor;

thin, thinning;

scarce, in short supply, thin on the ground, few and far between;

informal measly, piddling, mingy, pathetic;

rare exiguous.

▷antonyms abundant, ample, plentiful.

2 he shocked the public with his ballet dancers' scanty costumes:

skimpy, revealing, short, brief;

low, low-cut;

indecent.

▷antonyms modest.

choose the right word	scanty, sparse, meagre
See meagre.

scanty Oxford Dictionary of English