Definizione monolingua

scarce

scarce (comparative scarcer, superlative scarcest)

1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement.
2. Difficult to find, due to scarcity.

scarce (not comparable)

1. (now literary, archaic) Scarcely, only just.
   • 1854, Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven:

     And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you [...].

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4:

     Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.

   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 122:

     Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.

Definizione dizionario scarce

raro

	scarso
	Manchevole di quantità o di numero rispetto alla richiesta.
	Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand.

esiguo

infrequente

limitato

magro

Altri significati:

Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement.

Only a very short time before.

(now literary, archaic) Scarcely, only just.

Difficult to find, due to scarcity.

(a) few