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   Scarce

   /skers/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand: "as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed" Similar in short supplyshortscantscantymeagersparsehard to findhard to come bynot enoughtoo littleinsufficientdeficientinadequatelackingwantingat a premiumlike gold dustnot to be hadscarcer than hen's teethpaltrynegligiblethininformal:not to be had for love nor moneyrare:exiguousOpposite plentifulabundant
   • ▪ occurring in small numbers or quantities; rare: "the freshwater shrimp becomes scarce in soft water" Similar rarefew and far betweenthin on the groundseldom seen/founduncommonunusualinfrequentout of the commonOpposite common

   adverb

   • 1. scarcely: archaic "a babe scarce two years old"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size’, also ‘parsimonious’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scarceness noun

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   What does scarce mean?

   • The meaning of SCARCE is deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant. How to use scarce in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Scarce.

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   What is another word for scarce?

   • Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “scarce” in this overview. The synonyms of “Scarce” are: in short supply, short, scant, scanty, meagre, sparse, hard to find, hard to come by, not enough, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, rare, few and far between, thin on the ground, barely, hardly, scarcely, just

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   What does make oneself scarce mean?

   • archaic. make oneself scarce,Informal. to depart, especially suddenly. to stay away; avoid. In addition to the idiom beginning with scarce , also see make oneself scarce. The evidence is scarce, but since we don’t have more information, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

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   Scarce definition: insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant. See examples of SCARCE used in a sentence.

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   scarce: 1 adj deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand “fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought” Synonyms: rare not widely distributed tight affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow meager , meagerly , meagre , scrimpy , stingy deficient in amount or quality or extent Antonyms: abundant present in great quantity ...

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   Scarce means not easy to find or get, or rare. It can be used as an adjective or an adverb. Learn how to use scarce in different contexts, with examples and synonyms, from the Cambridge Dictionary.

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