scant vs thick

scant

adj
  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. 

  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary. 

noun
  • A sheet of stone. 

  • Scarcity; lack. 

  • A small piece or quantity. 

  • A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. 

  • A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. 

verb
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle. 

  • To limit in amount or share; to stint. 

det
  • Very little, very few. 

thick

adj
  • Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. 

  • Heavy in build; thickset. 

  • Densely crowded or packed. 

  • Having a viscous consistency. 

  • Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated. 

  • Detailed and expansive; substantive. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Friendly or intimate. 

  • Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips. 

  • Impenetrable to sight. 

  • Deep, intense, or profound. 

  • Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension. 

  • Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin. 

  • Abounding in number. 

noun
  • A stupid person; a fool. 

  • The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. 

  • A thicket. 

adv
  • Frequently or numerously. 

  • In a thick manner. 

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