English-Thai Dictionary

scarce

ADJ ขาดแคลน  ไม่ เพียงพอ  หายาก  ไม่ ค่อย พบ  infrequent limited kad-kan

 

scarcely

ADV อย่าง ขาดแคลน  อย่าง ไม่ เพียงพอ  หายาก  ไม่ ค่อย พบ  บอบบาง  เกือบจะ ไม่  แทบจะ ไม่  barely scantily yang-kad-kan

 

scarceness

N ความขัดสน  kwam-kad-son

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCARCE

a. 1. Not plentiful or abundant; being in small quantity in proportion to the demand. We say, water is scarce, wheat, rye, barley is scarce, money is scarce, when the quantity is not fully adequate to the demand.
2. Being few in number and scattered; rare; uncommon. Good horses are scarce.
The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved.

 

SCARCE, SCARCELY

adv. 1. Hardly; scantly.
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
2. Hardly; with difficulty.
Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides.

 

SCARCENESS, SCARCITY

n. 1. Smallness of quantity, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency defeat of plenty; penury; as a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties; a scarcity of lovely women.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.
2. Rareness; infrequency.
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.
Root of scarcity, the mangold-wurzel, a variety of the white beet.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCARCE

Scarce, a. [Compar. Scarcer; superl. Scarcest.] Etym: [OE. scars, OF. escars, eschars, LL. scarpsus, for L. excerptus, p. p. of excerpere to pick out, and hence to contract, to shorten; ex (see Ex- ) + carpere. See Carpet, and cf. Excerp. ]

 

1. Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon. You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value. Locke. The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved. Addison.

 

2. Scantily supplied (with ); deficient (in ); -- with of. [Obs. ] "A region scarce of prey. " Milton.

 

3. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs. ] "Too scarce ne too sparing. " Chaucer. To make one's self scarce, to decamp; to depart. [Slang ]

 

Syn. -- Rare; infrequent; deficient. See Rare.

 

SCARCE; SCARCELY

SCARCE; SCARCELY Scarce, Scarce "ly, adv.

 

1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. With a scarce well-lighted flame. Milton. The eldest scarcely five year was of age. Chaucer. Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. Dryden. He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. W. Irwing.

 

2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs. ] haucer.

 

SCARCEMENT

SCARCEMENT Scarce "ment, n. (Arch. & Engin. )

 

Defn: An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc. , retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.

 

SCARCENESS; SCARCITY

SCARCENESS; SCARCITY Scarce "ness, Scar "ci *ty, n.

 

Defn: The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise. .. owes its value to its scarcity. Rambler. The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. Collier.

 

Syn. -- Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

scarce

scarce |ske (ə )rs skɛ (ə )rs | ▶adjective (esp. of food, money, or some other resource ) insufficient for the demand: as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed. • occurring in small numbers or quantities; rare: the freshwater shrimp becomes scarce in soft water. ▶adverb archaic scarcely: a babe scarce two years old. PHRASES make oneself scarce informal leave a place, esp. so as to avoid a difficult situation. DERIVATIVES scarce ness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size, ’ also ‘parsimonious ’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected. ’

 

scarcely

scarce ly |ˈske (ə )rslē ˈskɛ (ə )rsli | ▶adverb only just; almost not: her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying. • only a very short time before: she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open. • used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case: they could scarcely all be wrong.

 

Oxford Dictionary

scarce

scarce |skɛːs | ▶adjective (especially of food, money, or some other resource ) insufficient for the demand: as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed. • occurring in small numbers or quantities; rare: the freshwater shrimp becomes scarce in soft water. ▶adverb archaic scarcely: a babe scarce two years old. PHRASES make oneself scarce informal leave a place, especially so as to avoid a difficult situation. DERIVATIVES scarceness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size ’, also ‘parsimonious ’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected ’.

 

scarcely

scarce ¦ly |ˈskɛːsli | ▶adverb only just; almost not: her voice is so low I can scarcely hear what she is saying. • only a very short time before: she had scarcely dismounted before the door swung open. • used to suggest that something is unlikely to be or certainly not the case: they could scarcely all be wrong.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

scarce

scarce adjective 1 food was scarce | scarce financial resources: in short supply, scant, scanty, meager, sparse, short, hard to find, hard to come by, too little, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting; at a premium, paltry, negligible; informal rare /scarce as hen's teeth, rarer /scarcer than hen's teeth, not to be had for love or money; formal exiguous. ANTONYMS plentiful, abundant. 2 birds that prefer dense forest are becoming scarce: rare, few and far between; uncommon, unusual. ANTONYMS common.

 

scarcely

scarcely adverb 1 she could scarcely hear what he was saying: hardly, barely, only just; almost not. 2 I scarcely ever see him: rarely, seldom, infrequently, not often, hardly ever, almost never, on rare occasions, every once in a while; informal once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS often. 3 this could scarcely be accidental: surely not, not, hardly, certainly not, definitely not, not at all, on no account, under no circumstances, by no means, in no way, noway, noways.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

scarce

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; Brit. out of the common. ANTONYMS common.

 

scarcely

scarcely adverb 1 she could scarcely hear what he was saying: hardly, barely, only just; almost not. 2 I scarcely ever see him: rarely, seldom, infrequently, not often, hardly ever, almost never, on rare occasions, every once in a while; informal once in a blue moon. ANTONYMS often. 3 this could scarcely be accidental: surely not, not, hardly, certainly not, definitely not, not at all, on no account, under no circumstances, by no means; N. Amer. noway.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

scarce

scarce /skeə r s /〖語源は 「選び出された (わずかな )」〗形容詞 ～r ; ～st 1 〖通例be ～〗〈食料 衣服 仕事などが 〉不足して , 十分にない , 供給不足の (→rare 1 1 )▸ Food is extremely scarce .食料が極度に不足している .2 〈物が 〉まれな , 珍しい .m à ke one s è lf sc á rce ｟くだけて ｠(不快な状況を避けるために )早々に立ち去る .副詞 ｟文 ｠＝scarcely .

 

scarcely

scarce ly /skéə r sli /→scarce 副詞 比較なし (!(1 )hardlyに比べ ｟ややかたく ｠. (2 )語法 成句については →hardly ) 1 〖準否定語 〗ほとんど …ない (!通例, 話し手 書き手の否定的な態度を暗示; →hardly コーパスの窓 ) ▸ I scarcely understood him .彼の言っていることはほとんどわからなかった ▸ It scarcely ever snows here .ここは雪が降ることはめったにない (!物事の頻度に関しては ～ everを用いる; →hardly ever ) ▸ For a while we could scarcely see anything .しばらくはほとんど何も見えなかった .2 とても [まさか ]…でない ▸ About 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was scarcely a congenial place for life .約45億年前地球は生命にとって決して快適な場所などではなかった .3 かろうじて , やっと ; わずかに ▸ My audience was scarcely twenty people .聴衆は20人そこそこだった ▸ Scarcely a minute later, she came back .わずか1分後に彼女は帰ってきた .