Associations to the word «Scarce»
Noun
- Sharpe
- Supply
- Clear
- Famine
- Nutrient
- Maid
- Gossip
- Subsistence
- Meat
- Irrigation
- Monsoon
- Precipitation
- Ear
- Chaser
- Plague
- Availability
- Tarzan
- Creature
- Humour
- Peat
- Ape
- Brute
- Starvation
- Turnip
- Uproar
- Gatherer
- Butterfly
- Tradesman
- Neighbor
- Ammunition
- Stranger
- Favour
- Fen
- Cedric
- Whales
- Fowl
- Bread
- Sorrow
- Splendour
- Deforestation
- Steed
- Pleasure
- Nor
- Contempt
- Vegetable
- Wrath
- Helium
- Old
- Fury
- Apology
- Flour
- Wickedness
- Deer
Adjective
Wiktionary
SCARCE, adjective. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
SCARCE, adjective. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
SCARCE, adverb. (now literary) (archaic) Scarcely, only just.
SCARCE AS HEN'S TEETH, adjective. (simile) Synonym of rare as hen's teeth.
SCARCE COPPER, noun. A butterfly of the copper or gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaena virgaureae
Dictionary definition
SCARCE, adverb. Only a very short time before; "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.
SCARCE, adjective. Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought".
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