scarce

Significat (anglès)

Adj

1. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
2. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

Adv

Scarcely, only just.

Conceptes

scarce

rare

scanty

few

sparse

poor

scant

meager

thin

in short supply

uncommon

insufficient

limited

infrequent

little

seldom

meagre

barely

precious

skimpy

hardly

just

scarcely

unusual

rarely

gaunt

lean

deficient

slight

small

lacking

not often

costly

short

skinny

defective

insignificant

trifling

a little

hard up

destitute

few remaining

extraordinary

odd

critical

thinlyscattered hair

be rare

be scanty

be uncommon

a few times

scarcity

dear

wanting

disappear

vanish

meagerly

meagrely

penuriously

scantily

bare

exiguous

narrow

spare

tight

faint

light

low

minor

petty

remote

slender

subtle

venial

inadequate

unfit

unsuitable

dispersed

scattered

deficiency

lack

vacancy

at a premium

harshly

remotely

uneath

very rare

expensive

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈskɛəs/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English scarce, skarce, scarse, scars, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“sparing, niggard”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).