scantily clad

English

Alternative forms

• scantily-clad

Adjective

scantily clad (comparative more scantily clad, superlative most scantily clad)

1. Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.
   • 1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule. […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 27:

     Here were no haggard savages, unkempt and scantily clad, coming forth from their dens in the rocks to stare wildly at the strangers.

   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:

     A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).

Synonyms

• cladly dressed (rare, nonstandard, proscribed)

Translations

wearing little clothing, almost naked

• German: spärlich bekleidet
• Hungarian: hiányos öltözetű
• Maori: pakiwara, pakiwhara
• Spanish: ligero de ropa (colloquial)
• Swedish: lättklädd (sv)