scanty russian

• жи́дкий

  liquid, fluid

  thin, watery, weak (of consistency)

  sparse, scanty, thin (sparse)

• ску́дный

  meagre, scanty, scant, sparse

  poor, wretched, humble

  barren, infertile, poor

  stingy, miserly, tight-fisted

• небога́тый

  not rich, of modest means, not well-off

  scanty, meagre, modest, limited

• мизе́рный

  scanty, meagre, wretched

• 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

• жи́денький

  runny, rather liquid, thin (in consistency)

  weak, watery, thin

  sparse, scanty, feeble

• обедня́ть

  to impoverish, to make scanty, to water down

• оскуде́лый

  scanty, scarce, depleted

• малоплодоро́дный

  poor, scanty

Examples

• 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.