scarce

scarce is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adverb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
2. superlative. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
3. superlative. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.
4. adverb. Alt. of Scarcely
5. adjective. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand

   "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

6. adverb. only a very short time before- W.B.Yeats

   "they could barely hear the speaker"

   "we hardly knew them"

   Synonyms: barely, hardly, just, scarcely

Synonyms

barely, hardly, just, scarcely

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scarce:

arcsec

Common word forms

scarcer, scarcely, scarcest, scarcement, scarceness

Words from these letters

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