scarceadjective
uk/skeəs/us/skers/C1 not easy to find or get:
Food and clean water were becoming scarce.
scarce resources
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- With jobs so scarce, many young people have nothing to do.
- In wartime, food is often scarce.
- Research evidence in this area is scarce.
- scarce water resources
- Details are still scarce.
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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Idiom(s)
make yourself scarce
scarceadverb
literary old-fashionedalmost not:
I could scarce believe my eyes.
Synonym
scarcely
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Merely and barely
- all
- all of sth idiom
- at a pinch idiom
- barely
- but
- by a whisker idiom
- by inches idiom
- hardly
- ill
- inch
- merely
- merest
- narrowly
- nothing
- nothing more than idiom
- only
- pinch
- scarcely
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