Synonyms:
scarce
Meaning: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
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meaning of the word
Synonyms:
barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce
Meaning: 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
Usage examples
Food was becoming scarce.
Tad could scarce repress a yell.
Food became very scarce in Valencia.
But Zeb scarce cared for their guidance.
Platters as old as that are very scarce.
I feel now as if I had scarce done anything else.
"We can scarce travel together," he replied, drily.
They scarce dared fare farther on, but yet would not turn back.
It could scarce be caused by the absence of her brother from the breakfast-table?
He was scarce over the great high hills when he heard the shrieking of a human child.