adjadj.alldeficient in quantity or number compared with the demandAttributes:quantity
Examples:- fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
Antonyms:abundant
Derivationally Related Form:scarcityscarceness
Inherited Hypernyms:scarce
Similar to:rare tight
See also:meager meagerly meagre scrimpy stingy
advadv.allonly a very short time beforeSynset:barely hardly just scarcely
Examples:- we hardly knew them
- 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
Inherited Hypernyms:barely
advadv.allalmost notSynset:barely hardly scarcely
Examples:- he hardly ever goes fishing
- he was scarce sixteen years old
- they scarcely ever used the emergency generator
- I can hardly hear what she is saying
- she barely seemed to notice him
- we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles
Pertainyms:scarce
Inherited Hypernyms:hardly