scarce

Значение (Английский)

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.

Синонимы

rare

scanty

few

🤏

sparse

scant

poor

thin

meager

insufficient

uncommon

limited

in short supply

seldom

little

infrequent

barely

just

unusual

hardly

precious

skimpy

scarcely

rarely

meagre

short

costly

small

not often

slight

lacking

lean

gaunt

deficient

slender

spare

subtle

tight

trifling

unfit

unsuitable

vacancy

vanish

venial

wanting

at a premium

hard up

be rare

very rare

be uncommon

few remaining

be scanty

thinlyscattered hair

uneath

meager

a few times

meagre

a little

bare

critical

‼️

dear

defective

deficiency

destitute

disappear

dispersed

exiguous

expensive

💰

extraordinary

faint

harshly

inadequate

insignificant

lack

light

low

meagerly

meagrely

minor

narrow

odd

penuriously

petty

remote

remotely

scantily

scarcity

scattered

skinny

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈskɛəs/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: scarce

Родственно средненидерландский: schaers

In summary

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”).