scarce

/skeəs/

Adjective

deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
- fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought

Adverb

only a very short time before
- they could barely hear the speaker
- we hardly knew them
- just missed being hit
- had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
- would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats

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abundant

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rare
tight

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scarce — Fresh vegetables were scarce at the market during the drought.