scantily clad

1. 1.

   inadequately clothed

   Synonymshalf-clothedunderclothed

   Similarunclothed

Questions about scantily clad

What does scantily clad mean?

scantily clad means "inadequately clothed".

What is another word for scantily clad?

Close synonyms include half-clothed, underclothed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scantily clad a common word?

scantily clad is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.