Difference between Deficient and Scant

DEFICIENT vs SCANT: NOUN

Inadequate in amount or degree
Of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
Lacking an essential quality or element.
Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient.
Falling short of some prescribed norm
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking
See under Abundant.
Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
Insufficient or inadequate in amount.

Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Barely sufficient.
Inadequately supplied; short.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough.
Falling short of a specific measure.
Very little, very few

Lacking; wanting; incomplete.
Defective; imperfect; inadequate: as, deficient strength.
Not having a full or adequate supply: as, the country is deficient in the means of carrying on war.

Short in quantity; scarcely sufficient; rather less than is wanted for the purpose; not enough; scanty: as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant piece of cloth for a garment.
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
Having a limited or scanty supply; scarce; short: with of.
Nautical, of the wind, coming from a direction such that a ship will barely lie her course even when close-hauled.
To put on scant allowance; limit; stint: as, to scant one in provisions or necessaries.
To make small or scanty; diminish; cut short or down.
To be niggard or sparing of; begrudge; keep back.
Nautical, of the wind, to become less favorable; blow in such a direction as to hinder a vessel from continuing on her course even when close-hauled.
Scarcely; hardly.
Scantily; sparingly.
Work hastily or carelessly

Nonstandard, Short, Light, Lean, Scant, Low, Scarce, Skimpy, Depleted, Inferior, Poor, Substandard, Insufficient, Lacking, Inadequate

Limited, Scarce, Negligible, Minimal, Paltry, Scanty, Little, Sparse, Meager, Stint, Light, Skimp, Short, Deficient, Insufficient

Nonstandard, Short, Light, Lean, Scant, Low, Scarce, Skimpy, Depleted, Inferior, Poor, Substandard, Insufficient, Lacking, Inadequate

Limited, Scarce, Negligible, Minimal, Paltry, Scanty, Little, Sparse, Meager, Stint, Light, Skimp, Short, Deficient, Insufficient

Toryanskis did not provide deficient performance in mitigation.
Do not use respirators in oxygen deficient environments.
It means we are deficient in bicarbonate and the more deficient we get in bicarbonate, the more acidic we become and acid burns.
Some governments are deficient in both these qualities; most governments are deficient in the first.
Some governments are deficient in both these qualities: Most governments are deficient in the first.
Individuals applying for WIOA enrollment using the basic skills deficient priority of service must provide documentation to verify they are basic skills deficient.
Grantee shall purchase Deficient Quantities from Grantor by paying Grantor the Deficient Quantity Charge.
Critically deficient: Performance that is critically deficient and in need ofimmediate remedial attention.
Deficient precipitation parameterization: Do not assimilate observations where the model is deficient.
The divisors of a pefect or deficient number is deficient.