SCARCE

1. [a] deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

2. [s] not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"

3. [r] by a small margin; "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

similar words

1. [s] rare

2. [s] tight

3. [a] insufficient

4. [a] deficient

opposite words

1. [a] abundant