scant russian

• ску́дный

  meagre, scanty, scant, sparse

  poor, wretched, humble

  barren, infertile, poor

  stingy, miserly, tight-fisted

• скупи́ться

  to be sparing, to scant, to stint, to skimp

• поскупи́ться

  to be sparing, to scant, to stint, to skimp

• жи́дкий

  liquid, fluid

  thin, watery, weak (of consistency)

  sparse, scanty, thin (sparse)

• небога́тый

  not rich, of modest means, not well-off

  scanty, meagre, modest, limited

• мизе́рный

  scanty, meagre, wretched

• ограни́ченность

  limited nature, scantiness, narrow-mindedness

• негустой

  thin, watery, runny

  sparse, thin, not dense

  meagre, scanty, poor

• малочи́сленный

  small in numbers, scanty

• ку́цый

  too short, skimpy, scanty

  short-tailed, bobtailed, dock-tailed

  curtailed, truncated, limited, meagre

• скудно

  scantily, meagerly, poorly, sparsely

• ску́по

  stingily, in a miserly way

  sparingly, sparsely, scantily

• жи́денький

  runny, rather liquid, thin (in consistency)

  weak, watery, thin

  sparse, scanty, feeble

• жи́дко

  thinly, waterily, in liquid form

  sparsely, scantily, thinly

• небога́то

  modestly, poorly, not richly

  not much, scantily, in short supply

• полутёмный

  dark, scantily lit

• обедня́ть

  to impoverish, to make scanty, to water down

• ми́зерность

  scantiness, paltriness, meagreness, insignificance

  wretchedness, miserable state

  meanness, baseness, pettiness of character

• оскуде́лый

  scanty, scarce, depleted

• малоисследованный

  scantily explored

• малоплодоро́дный

  poor, scanty

• жи́денько

  thinly, waterily, weakly (of a brew)

  sparsely, scantily, feebly

Examples

• Мэри полуоде́та.

  Mary is scantily clad.

• Мэри скупо оде́та.

  Mary is scantily dressed.

• Нам дали куцый список продуктов.

  They gave us a scanty list of groceries.

• Он смотрел на оскуделый запас дров с тревогой.

  He looked anxiously at the scanty supply of firewood.

• Она открыла дверь полураздетая и смутилась.

  She opened the door scantily dressed and felt embarrassed.