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adj. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.

adj. Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops.

ad. Barely or hardly; scarcely.

idiom. make (oneself) scarce Informal To stay away; be absent or elusive.

idiom. make (oneself) scarce Informal To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond.

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

ad. Scarcely, only just.

adj. Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

adj. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.

adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.

ad. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

ad. Frugally; penuriously.

Sparing; parsimonious; niggard; niggardly; stingy.

Scantily supplied; poorly provided; not having much: sometimes with of.

Diminished; reduced from the original or the proper size or measure; deficient; short.

Deficient in quantity or number; insufficient for the need or demand; scant; scanty; not abundant.

Few in number; seldom seen; infrequent; uncommon; rare: as, scarce coins; a scarce book.

Characterized by scarcity, especially of provisions, or the necessaries of life.

Synonyms and Rare, Scarce. See rare.

Hardly; barely; scarcely.

To make less; diminish; make scant.

adj. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand

ad. only a very short time before

"Thus, _If cats are scarce, mice are plentiful_, contains two verbal clauses; but _if cats are scarce_ is conditional, not indicative; and _mice are plentiful_ is subject to the condition that _cats are scarce_."

rare    tight    scarcely   

to make one's self scarce    make oneself scarce   

deficient    rare    infrequent    uncommon    sparing    frugal    parsimonious    stingy    hardly    scantly   

well    likely    wont    rare    abundant    reasonable    difficult    easy    valuable    slow