Definitions for scarce

scarce scarce

Spelling: [skairs]
IPA: /skɛərs/

Scarce is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in scarce (accers).

Definitions for scarce

Idioms

  1. make oneself scarce, Informal. to depart, especially suddenly. to stay away; avoid.

adverb

  1. scarcely.

adjective

  1. insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant:
  2. seldom met with; rare:

Origin of scarce

1250-1300; Middle English scars Old North French (e)scars Vulgar Latin *excarpsus plucked out, for Latin excerptus; see excerpt

Examples for scarce

She had left it impulsively, she admitted, scarce knowing what she did.

"And so belabored as to be scarce able to crawl along it," cried a third.

scarce was there an eye but what was suffused with tears of joy.

The Jews were the subjects of a foreign race and money was scarce.

We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.

After two decades of war, even the most basic infrastructure is scarce.

Maybe he museth, but he had scarce a word to say for himself.

It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions.

But while lawmakers vocally opposed to the deal were scarce, it faced some criticism in the think tank world.

Now, visitors are scarce and the jungle is taking over, leaving some locals nostalgic.

Word Value for scarce
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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