scarce

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - adjective

deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
- fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
• Ant:
abundant
• Similar to:
rare, tight
• See Also:
meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
• Derivationally related forms:
scarceness, scarcity
• Attrubites:
quantity

II - adverb

only a very short time before (Freq. 1)
- they could barely hear the speaker
- we hardly knew them
- just missed being hit
- had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
- "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
• Syn:
barely, hardly, just, scarcely

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  barely, hardly, just, scarcely