Usually means: Limited availability; not readily abundant.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word scarce:

General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scarce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scarce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scarce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scarce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scarce, scarce: Wordnik
  7. scarce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scarce: Wiktionary
  9. scarce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scarce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scarce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scarce: Dictionary.com
  13. scarce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scarce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scarce (band), Scarce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scarce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scarce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scarce: Rhymezone
  19. scarce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scarce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scarce: Free Dictionary
  22. scarce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scarce: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. scarce: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarce: Numismatic Dictionary

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scarce: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. scarce: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCARCE: Acronym Finder
  2. scarce: Idioms

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarce: Urban Dictionary

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See scarceness as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (chiefly of resources, such as food) Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
▸ adjective:  Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
▸ adverb:  (archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
rare, insufficient, deficient, just, scarcely, tight, barely, hardly, unplentiful, uncommon, more...

Opposite:
abundant, plentiful, ample, copious, bountiful

Phrases:
make oneself scarce, as scarce as hen's teeth, as scarce as hens teeth, make scarce, made scarce, more...

Adjectives:
very, skiey, sun, dead, skyey, forlorn, eternal, more, withering, little, grassy


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Similar:
rare, insufficient, deficient, just, scarcely, tight, barely, hardly, unplentiful, uncommon, more...

Opposite:
abundant, plentiful, ample, copious, bountiful

Phrases:
make oneself scarce, as scarce as hen's teeth, as scarce as hens teeth, make scarce, made scarce, make yourself scarce, makes scarce, making scarce, scarce as hen's teeth, scarce as hens teeth, scarce good, more...

Adjectives:
very, skiey, sun, dead, skyey, forlorn, eternal, more, withering, little, grassy

Crossword clues:
very few,   very rare,   harder to come by,   extremely rare,   very limited,   rarely seen,   little to no,   little to none,   barely enough,   too few


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