scarce
scarce is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of. [Obs.] "A region scarce of prey." Milton.
- 2.Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs.] "Too scarce ne too sparing." Chaucer. To make one's self scarce, to decamp; to depart. [Slang] See Rare.
- 3.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. Irwing.
- 4.Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] haucer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- all
- almost
- and
- between
- blue
- diamond
- ever
- experience
- far
- few
- fewness
- for
- hardly
- has
- infrequency
- infrequent
- infrequently
- inhabitant
- memory
- million
- moon
- much
- not
- often
- once
- one
- previous
- pro
- rare
- rarely
- rareness
- rarity
- scarcely
- seldom
- seldomness
- since
- teeth
- the
- unfrequent
- unheard
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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