Adjective scarce has 2 senses
- scarce - not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"
Antonym: sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
- scarce - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
Antonyms: abundant, abounding, galore, ample, plenteous, rich, bumper, copious, extensive, voluminous, easy, thick, long, overabundant, plethoric, rife, plentiful, superabundant, teeming, swarming, torrential, verdant, well endowed, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous, rank
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Adverbial scarce has 1 sense
- barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce - 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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