scarce

1. 1

   Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

   • By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
2. 2

   Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

   • The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.

syn. geason · infrequent · raresome

1. 1

   Scarcely, only just.archaicliterarynot-comparable

   • The Virgin quite for her requeſt / The God that ſits at marriage feaſt; / He at their invoking came / But with a ſcarce-wel-lighted flame; / And in his Garland as he ſtood, / Ye might diſcern a Cipreſs bud.
   • And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, / That I scarce was sure I heard you […]