| 单词 | scarceness |
| 释义 | scarceness (once / 176408 pages) n WORD FAMILY scarce: scarcely, scarceness, scarcer, scarcest, scarcity+/scarcity: scarcities USAGE EXAMPLESIt is not true that Judea was 'a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness,' as various famines are mentioned. Bradlaugh, Charles, The Bible: what it is(2011) But our torches were poor, and driftwood of much scarceness, so we dare not investigate greatly the interior for better place. Springer, Norman, Fire Mountain—A Thrilling Sea Story(2010) Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures:— Curséd the wight that trusteth in man Making flesh his stay! Smith, George Adam, Sir, Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture...(2010) n a small and inadequate amount Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper scarcity abundance, copiousness, teemingness the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply dearth, paucity an insufficient quantity or number infrequency, rareness, raritynoteworthy scarcity deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number |
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