scant

/skænt/

意味: 欠ける、乏しい

例文: Haruki’s scant patience shocked Aki.
　　  ハルキの乏しい忍耐にアキは驚いた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: scant attention(わずかな注意), scant resources(乏しい資源), scant evidence(少ない証拠)

定義: 十分でない、少ない、限られた量のことを指します。何かが必要な量に達していない、または期待されるよりも少ない場合に使われます。

scantは約800,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
Verb: limit in quality or quantity
Verb: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Adjective: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The evidence was scant and did not prove his guilt.(証拠は乏しく、彼の有罪を証明できなかった。)
She gave scant attention to the warning signs.(彼女は警告の兆候にほとんど注意を払わなかった。)
Their resources were scant but they managed to survive.(彼らの資源は乏しかったが、生き延びた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: sting with the allowance
Adjective: a light pound
Adjective: a scant cup of sugar
Adjective: regularly gives short weight

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): light, scant, short, skimp, stint

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): restrict, supply, work

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): air-cool, alphabetize, arm, assist, beaver, bed, berth, bewhisker, boondoggle, border, bottom, brattice, bush, busy, calk, canal, capitalize, caption, carpenter, causeway, charge, classify, cleat, clerk, coal, collaborate, computerize, constitutionalize, copper-bottom, corbel, cornice, costume, crenel, curtain, dado, date, electioneer, equip, extend, feed, flood, fret, fuel, fund, furnish, gate, glass, grate, hat, headline, headquarter, heat, hobnail, hydrate, index, innervate, interleave, intern, joint, kern, key, leverage, localize, machicolate, match, minister, offer, page, partner, patch, plug away, pour, provision, pull one’s weight, pump, putter, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, reflectorize, retrofit, rim, sanitate, scant, seat, serve, shelter, signalize, skimp, skipper, slat, specialize, step, stint, stock, subtitle, surfeit, taboo, tap, terrace, theme, ticket, toggle, tool, top, transistorize, tube, uniform, upholster, victual, volunteer, wait, water, wharf, whore, wive, work, work at, work through, yield

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語):

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: scantness, stinter

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Exam Level

英検1級

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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