scarce
Meaning of scarce
adjective
- (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand.
as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed
- scarcely.
a babe scarce two years old
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’.
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Hyphenation of scarce
scarce
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- scarce is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
scarce synonyms
Meaning barely:
barely, hardly, just, scarcely
Meaning in insufficient supply:
Meaning barely sufficient or adequate:
Meaning small or insufficient in quantity or amount:
Meaning (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality:
Meaning thinly dispersed or scattered:
Meaning not enough; inadequate:
Meaning not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning not available or in short supply:
Meaning lacking in a required or necessary quality:
Meaning (of an amount) very small or meagre:
Meaning so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant:
Meaning with opposite surfaces or sides that are close or relatively close together:
Meaning very small in size or amount:
scarce antonyms
Meaning existing in or yielding great quantities; abundant:
Meaning existing or available in large quantities; plentiful:
Translation of scarce
- German: selten, knapp, gerade, kaum, eben
- French: rare
- Italian: scarso, appena
- Portuguese: escasso
- Spanish: escaso, apenas, escasamente
Words that rhyme with scarce
Arce, Barce, Carce, unscarce, Darce, Bearce, Pearce, pearce, searce, enfarce, farce, infarce, garce
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