scarce
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adverb
only a very short time before
they could barely hear the speaker
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | meager |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | abundant |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | quantity |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scarcity |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | rare |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | tight |