Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).

synoniemen: pantie, panty, step-in.

Nederlands: panty

Lacking in magnitude or quantity:
— A scanty harvest.

synoniemen: bare, spare.

Roget 103: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent etc. 137; rari nantes [Lat.]; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced etc. v.; unrepeated^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 203: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like etc. (filament) 205; finespun^†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^†; contracted etc. 195; unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^†; slender as a thread.    [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.    attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid^†, marcid^†, barebone, rawboned.    monomolecular.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 32: small, little; diminutive etc. (small in size) 193; minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry etc. (unimportant) 643; faint etc. (weak) 160; slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager etc. (insufficient) 640; sparing; few etc. 103; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.    inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small; atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic.    mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run.    dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.    ... meer laten zien

of clothing Revealing the body:
— Her dress was scanty and revealing.

synoniem: skimpy.