Difference between Scant and Skimp

What is the difference between Scant and Skimp?

Scant as an adjective is very little, very few while Skimp as an adjective is scanty.

Scant

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. A sheet of stone. A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: very little, very few

Skimp

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: scanty.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.

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