Crossword clues for scarce
scarce
- Few and far between
- Seldom seen
- Hard to come by
- Not often seen
- Hardly plentiful
- Like hens' teeth, so it's said
- Difficult to find
- Not plentiful
- Not easy to come by
- Like water in the desert
- Not enough to satisfy demand
- Not at all abundant
- What you might "make yourself"
- What the crowd is for starter bands
- Very limited
- Something to make yourself
- See 75D
- Rare as hen's teeth
- Not widely available
- Not often found
- Not around much
- More common than rare
- Like rationing candidates
- Like hen's teeth, idiomatically
- Like collectible items
- Like cabs on a rainy day
- Hard to dig up
- Falling short of demand
- "Make yourself ___!"
- __ as hen's teeth (rather rare)
- Like hen's teeth, so to speak
- Like cabs on a rainy day, seemingly
- Like capital letters in many E. E. Cummings poems
- Numismatist's description
- Limited
- "Make yourself ___"
- Like embargoed goods
- Pretty hard to find
- Hard to find
- In short supply
- Rarely encountered
- Like the nene
- Like farmland in Ethiopia
- Infrequent
- Hard to get
- Alarm about cold rarely encountered
- Wanting courage primarily to stop fright
- Start with carbon sequestration - it's lacking
- Start hoarding Chilean capital like gold dust
- Not abundant
- Few panic catching cold
- Like gold dust
- Rare sign of damage on church
- Rare blemish creates exasperation initially
- Blemish by church rarely seen
- It's uncommon for society to worry about carbon
- Hard to find evidence of being wounded by church
- Unwarranted alarm about carbon being in short supply
- Uncommon sign of injury — Anglicans providing support
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scarce \Scarce\, Scarcely \Scarce"ly\, adv.
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With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
With a scarce well-lighted flame.
--Milton.The eldest scarcely five year was of age.
--Chaucer.Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
--Dryden.He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom.
--W. Irving. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Scarce \Scarce\ (sk[^a]rs), a. [Compar. Scarcer (sk[^a]r"s[~e]r); superl. Scarcest.] [OE. scars, OF. escars, eschars, LL. scarpsus, excarpsus, for L. excerptus, p. p. of excerpere to pick out, and hence to contract, to shorten; ex (see Ex-) + carpere. See Carpet, and cf. Excerp.]
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Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.
--Locke.The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.
--Addison. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of. [Obs.] ``A region scarce of prey.''
--Milton.-
Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs.] ``Too scarce ne too sparing.''
--Chaucer.To make one's self scarce, to decamp; to depart. [Slang]
Syn: Rare; infrequent; deficient. See Rare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "restricted in quantity," from Old North French scars "scanty, scarce" (Old French eschars, Modern French échars) from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from *escarpsus, from *excarpere "pluck out," from classical Latin excerpere "pluck out" (see excerpt). As an adverb early 14c. from the adjective. Phrase to make oneself scarce "go away" first attested 1771, noted as a current "cant phrase." Related: Scarcely.
Wiktionary
a. uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand. adv. (context now literary archaic English) scarcely, only just.
WordNet
adj. not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"
deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" [ant: abundant]
Wikipedia
Scarce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Kevin Scarce (born 1952), Royal Australian Navy admiral
- Mac Scarce (born 1949), American baseball player
- Michael Scarce (21st century), American writer
Scarce is an Alternative rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were active from 1993 to 1997, and reformed in 2008.
That which is scarce is of insufficient quantity to fulfill all human wants and needs.
Scarce may also refer to:
- Scarce (band), an American alternative rock band
- Scarce (surname), a surname
Usage examples of "scarce".
The allosaurs too went into steep decline across the supercontinent as their prey animals became scarce.
However, Professor Schleiermacher was a specimen of that noble type of scientific men to whom gold was merely the rare metal Au, and diamonds merely the element C in the scarcest of its manifold allotropic embodiments.
We all looked on with horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass through the interstice where scarce a knife blade could have gone.
He wanted to before, but now that someone jumps off the starting high-flier and shouts his name plus his super annuated rank to the ends of the world, the meanwhile alderman and sharpshooter Heinrich Osterhues has lost all inclination and wants only to make himself scarce.
The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.
Yet if the President has the power to channel raw materials into the most efficient industrial units and thus save scarce materials from wastage it is difficult to see why the same principle is not applicable to the distribution of fuel oil.
The winter was a much milder one than the preceding, food was less scarce, money more plentiful owing to the issue of assignats, public confidence greatly increased.
Her attenuated limbs could scarce bear their burden, and she would declare with a wan smile that the blood in her veins would not suffice for a little bird, and that she must have plenty of soup.
After that the banket was prepared, they washed their bodies, and brought in a tall young man of the village, to sup with them, who had scarce tasted a few pottage, when hee began to discover their beastly customes and inordinate desire of luxury.
There is scarce room in it for Himaggery and Barish, let alone any others.
The fat huckster-women drowsing beside their wares, scarce send their voices beyond the borders of their broadbrimmed straw hats, as they softly haggle with purchasers, or tranquilly gossip together.
The lowveld lay black and ravaged by the fire, and food and shelter for the bushpigs were scarce.
The action was scarce noted ere the glittering beak of the masquer shot past the eyes of the judges, who doubted for an instant on whom success had fallen.
He who comes straight out, as scarce a mestizo dares to come, and defies the Big Caciques to their teeth?
The forest, large as it is, will scarce hold you both, and methinks you had best shift your quarters to Langholm Chase until the storm has passed.