scarcest
Meaning of scarcest
adjective, superlative adjective
- (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand.
as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed
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’.
Information about scarcest
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Hyphenation of scarcest
scarcest
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- scarcest is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
scarcest synonyms
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:
scarcest antonyms
Meaning existing in or yielding great quantities; abundant:
Meaning existing or available in large quantities; plentiful:
Words that rhyme with scarcest
cest, chicest, choicest, nicest, incest, fiercest, doucest, pucest, sprucest
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