adjective, adverb
adjective (scarcer, scarcest) if sth is scarce, there is not enough of it and it is only available in small quantities:
scarce resources * Details of the accident are scarce. * Food was becoming scarce.
IDIOMS
make oneself scarce (informal) to leave somewhere and stay away for a time in order to avoid an unpleasant situation:
I could see he was annoyed so I made myself scarce.
adverb (literary) only just; almost not:
I can scarce remember him.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scarce is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does scarce appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — scarce appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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