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scarce

English

  1. 🔊 deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
    “fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought”
  2. 🔊 almost not
    “he hardly ever goes fishing”
  3. 🔊 only a very short time before
    “we hardly knew them”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ralo scarce, uncommon
  2. 🔊 escaso scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim

Similar words

barely hardly just scarcely hardly scarcely barely almost unheard-of at a premium barely cheeseparing chinchy chintzy curtailed deficient exiguous failing few hardly in short supply inadequate infrequent insufficient lacking