scarce

adjective · adverbA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

scarcerscarcest

Superlative

scarsescace

1.
(chiefly of resources, such as food) Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
2.
Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.

Trạng từ

adverb

Comparative

scarse

Superlative

scace

1.
(archaic, literary, not comparable)Scarcely, only just.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

geasoninfrequentraresome

Cùng gốc / liên quan

nonscarcescarcement unscarcemake oneself scarcescarce as hen's teethscarce chaserscarce copperscarcely scarcen scarceness scarcity

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English scars, scarse, from scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, scarsus), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (take out), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace.