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English-Thai Dictionary

paucity

N ความขัดสน  lack scantness meagerness kwam-kad-son

 

paucity

N จำนวน เล็กน้อย  jam-nuan-lek-noi

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAUCITY

n.[L. paucitas, from paucus, few. ] 1. Fewness; smallness of number; as the paucity of schools.
2. Smallness of quantity; as paucity of blood.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PAUCITY

Pau "ci *ty, n. Etym: [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F.paucité See Few. ]

 

1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

 

2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

paucity

pau ci ty |ˈpôsitē ˈpɔsədi | noun [ in sing. ] the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity: a paucity of information. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French paucite or Latin paucitas, from paucus few.

 

Oxford Dictionary

paucity

paucity |ˈpɔːsɪti | noun [ in sing. ] the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts: a paucity of information. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French paucite or Latin paucitas, from paucus few .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

paucity

paucity noun the police cannot act with such a paucity of evidence: scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, dearth, shortage, poverty, insufficiency, deficiency, lack, want. ANTONYMS abundance.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

paucity

paucity noun a paucity of evidence. See inadequacy (sense 1 ).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

paucity

pau ci ty /pɔ́ːsəti /名詞 U かたく 〖通例the /a (データなどの )不足, 不十分さ ; 少量 (lack ).