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scarce

adjective

1 the drought means that the crops have failed and food is scarce | scarce financial resources:

in short supply, short, scant, scanty, meagre, sparse, hard to find, hard to come by, not enough, too little, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting;

at a premium, like gold dust, not to be had, scarcer than hen's teeth;

paltry, negligible, thin;

informal not to be had for love nor money;

rare exiguous.

▷antonyms plentiful, abundant.

2 birds that prefer dense forest interiors are becoming scarcer:

rare, few and far between, thin on the ground, seldom seen/found;

uncommon, unusual, infrequent;

British out of the common.

▷antonyms common.

scarce Oxford Dictionary of English