escaso

Meaning

1. scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim
2. low, little, small, poor, weak (in quantity, degree, size, rate or estimate)
3. sparse, scanty, thin

Concepts

scarce

little

scanty

rare

sparse

short

meagre

stingy

scant

lean

small

small quantity

a little

insufficient

meager

poor

skimpy

slender

slight

thin

ungenerous

only

penurious

uncommon

kind of

just

in short supply

inadequate

scrimpy

seldom

grudging

skimp

thin on the ground

wanting

scrimy

slim

frugal

some

spare

sparing

few

🤏

bare

a little bit

tight

tightfisted

limited

light

low

tight-fisted

meagerly

laconic

niggardly

Synonyms

poco

limitado

insuficiente

raro

pequeño

un poco

corto

escasa

algo

deficiente

tierno

menos

algo menos

exiguo

mezquino

mínimo

no más

s

s

restringido

escasero

que se acaba rápido

chilarí

acabar

corto miserable

bajo

breve

chico

débil

difícil

infrecuente

pobre

poca cantidad

pocas veces

avariento

despreciable

escasear

Hyphenated as

es‧ca‧so

Pronounced as (IPA)

/esˈkaso/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: excerpere

Cognate with English: scarce

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce.