SCARCE
\skˈe͡əs], \skˈeəs], \s_k_ˈeə_s]\
Definitions of SCARCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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by a small margin; "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
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deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
By Princeton University
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by a small margin; "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
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deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
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Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.
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Alt. of Scarcely
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Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); - with of.
By Oddity Software
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Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
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Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.
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Alt. of Scarcely
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Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); - with of.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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