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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
scarce


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

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