SCARCE as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
   Usage Example(s)
   • fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
   Antonym(s)
   • abundant (what does abundant mean?)
   Similar To
   • rare (what does rare mean?)
   • tight (what does tight mean?)
   See Also
   • meager (what does meager mean?)
   • meagre (what does meagre mean?)
   • meagerly (what does meagerly mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • quantity (what does quantity mean?)
2. Meaning
   • not enough
   • hard to find
   Usage Example(s)
   • meat was scarce during the war
   Similar To
   • insufficient (what does insufficient mean?)
   • deficient (what does deficient mean?)

SCARCE as ADVERB

1. Meaning
   • by a small margin
   Synonym(s)
   • barely (what does barely mean?)
   • hardly (what does hardly mean?)
   • just (what does just mean?)
   • scarcely (what does scarcely mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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