Associations to the word «Scarce»
Noun
- Rapidity
- Distress
- Necessary
- Weariness
- Bush
- Toil
- Save
- Timber
- Shore
- Thou
- Hazard
- Shortage
- Ill
- Hen
- Throng
- Coinage
- Wilt
- Refreshment
- Currency
- Wretch
- Continuance
- Reflection
- Footing
- Folk
- Manner
- Trembling
- Orchid
- Groundwater
- Fuel
- Oar
- Pluck
- Countenance
- Nourishment
- Woodland
- Comfort
- Pang
- Water
- Affection
- Documentation
- Rodent
- Faint
- Joy
- Seaman
- Sprite
- Tremble
- Sentiment
- Arrow
- Sweetness
- Verity
- Partridge
- Away
- Gasoline
- Apprehension
- Delight
- Warbler
- Magnificence
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".
Wise words
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the hands of one who knows how to combine them.