scarce
About 7.45 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
- adjective Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.
- adverb Scarcely, only just.
Similar words
scarcely deficient barely insufficient rare hardly tight just scarcity scant
Often followed by
and resources in a any resource be ever to
Word family
scarceness scarcenesses scarcer scarcest
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