scarce
21scarce — adjective 1) food was scarce scarce financial resources Syn: in short supply, scant, scanty, meager, sparse, short, hard to find, hard to come by, too little, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting; a …
22scarce — scarceness, n. /skairs/, adj., scarcer, scarcest, adv. adj. 1. insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war. 2. seldom met with; rare: a scarce book. 3. make oneself scarce, Informal. a. to… …
23scarce — 1 adjective 1 if food, clothing, water etc is scarce, there is not enough of it available: Fruit was always scarce in winter, and cost a lot. see rare 2 make yourself scarce informal to leave a place, especially in order to avoid an unpleasant… …
24scarce — /skɛəs / (say skairs) adjective (scarcer, scarcest) 1. insufficient for the need or demand; not abundant: commodities scarce in wartime. 2. seldom met with; rare: a scarce book. –adverb 3. Obsolete scarcely. –phrase 4. make oneself scarce,… …
25scarce — I. adjective (scarcer; scarcest) Etymology: Middle English scars, from Anglo French eschars, escars narrow, stingy, deficient, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus, literally, plucked out, past participle of Latin excerpere to pluck out more at excerpt… …
26scarce — See rare. See rare, scarce See scarce, scarcely …
27scarce — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rare, uncommon, deficient, scanty, few. See insufficiency, rarity.Ant., plenteous, common. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. limited, infrequent, not plentiful; see rare 2 , uncommon . • make oneself… …
28scarce — adjective 1) food was scarce Syn: in short supply, scant, meagre, sparse, hard to come by 2) wading birds are now scarce Syn: rare, few and far between, thin on the ground • Ant …
29scarce — [skeəs] adj if something is scarce, there is not very much of it Ant: abundant Fresh water and medicines were scarce in the disaster area.[/ex] …
30scarce — [[t]skɛərs[/t]] adj. scarc•er, scarc•est, adv. 1) insufficient to satisfy the need or demand 2) rarely encountered 3) scarcely • make oneself scarce Etymology: 1250–1300; ME scars < ONF (e)scars < VL *excarpsus plucked out, for L excerptus; …
