Found 3 items, similar to scarce.
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Definition: scarce
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: scarce
scarce
adj 1: not enough; hard to find;
“meat was scarce during the war”
2: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand;
“fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought” [ant:
abundant]
scarce
adv : by a small margin;
“they could barely hear the speaker”;
“we
hardly knew them”;
“just missed being hit”;
“had
scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open”;
“would
have scarce arrived before she would have found some
excuse to leave”- W.B.Yeats [syn:
barely,
hardly,
just,
scarcely]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Scarce
Scarce
\Scarce\, Scarcely
\Scarce"ly\, adv.
1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
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With a scarce well-lighted flame. --Milton.
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The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer.
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Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
--Dryden.
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He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived
who had been sent for my ransom. --W. Irving.
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2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Scarce
\Scarce\ (sk[^a]rs), a. [Compar.
Scarcer
(sk[^a]r"s[~e]r); superl.
Scarcest.] [OE. scars, OF.
escars, eschars, LL. scarpsus, excarpsus, for L. excerptus,
p. p. of excerpere to pick out, and hence to contract, to
shorten; ex (see
Ex-) + carpere. See
Carpet, and cf.
Excerp.]
1. Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion
to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
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You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and
therefore risen one fifth in value. --Locke.
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The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a
medallion well preserved. --Addison.
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2. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
[Obs.]
“A region scarce of prey.” --Milton.
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3. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs.]
“Too scarce
ne too sparing.” --Chaucer.
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To make one's self scarce, to decamp; to depart. [Slang]
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Syn: Rare; infrequent; deficient. See
Rare.
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