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Antonyms for scarce
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
scarce
Unique is alone of its kind; rare is infrequent of its kind; great poems are rare; "Paradise Lost" is unique. To say of a thing that it is rare is simply to affirm that it is now seldom found, whether previously common or not; as, a rare old book; a rare word; to call a thing scarce implies that it was at some time more plenty, as when we say food or money is scarce. A particular fruit or coin may be rare; scarce applies to demand and use, and almost always to concrete things; to speak of virtue, genius, or heroism as scarce would be somewhat ludicrous. Rare has the added sense of precious, which is sometimes, but not necessarily, blended with that above given; as, a rare gem. Extraordinary, signifying greatly beyond the ordinary, is a neutral word, capable of a high and good sense or of an invidious, opprobrious, or contemptuous signification; as, extraordinary genius; extraordinary wickedness; an extraordinary assumption of power; extraordinary antics; an extraordinary statement is incredible without overwhelming proof.
See synonyms for GENERAL; NORMAL; USUAL.
Synonyms:
curious, extraordinary, incomparable, infrequent, odd, peculiar, precious, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, uncommon, unique, unparalleled, unprecedented, unusual
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Princeton's WordNet
scarceadverb
deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
"fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
Antonyms:
rank, overabundant, rich, long, lush, plentiful, teeming, rampant, ample, plethoric, verdant, abounding, torrential, plenteous, thick, riotous, abundant, copious, galore(ip), superabundant, profuse, luxuriant, easy, exuberant, rife, voluminousbarely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarceadverb
only a very short time before
"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
Antonyms:
luxuriant, superabundant, abundant, plenteous, torrential, plethoric, overabundant, abounding, copious, galore(ip), long, rife, profuse, thick, teeming, riotous, voluminous, ample, rank, rich, plentiful, exuberant, easy, rampant, lush, verdantSynonyms:
just, barely, hardly, scarcely, merely, scantily, exactly, simply, but, precisely, only, just now
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
scarceadjective
Synonyms:
rare, unplentiful, deficient
How to use scarce in a sentence?
The most important thing to remember when visiting Cuba is that it is still very isolated, internet is scarce, ATMs are even scarcer.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
We shared scarce food rations and helped the weakest men together.
There have been a number of notorious bond squeezes when there have been a lot of CDS outstanding and fewer deliverable bonds, it can drive up the price of the scarce bonds if more CDS settle physically, and in such a situation CDS buyers could get smaller payouts than they might otherwise have expected.
Because embryos are so precious and scarce, it is almost impossible to test new medicines on them, you would need typically huge numbers of embryos in order to test medicines in the proper way. Here, because we are using stem cells, we can generate an infinite number of early embryos.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#264 | long | |
#621 | easy | |
#736 | common | |
#2169 | rich | |
#2219 | rank | |
#4800 | thick | |
#5997 | frequent | |
#12717 | abundant | |
#13357 | ample | |
#14822 | lush | |
#15777 | scarce | |
#23163 | rampant | |
#26752 | plentiful | |
#33009 | rife | |
#41570 | copious | |
#46323 | exuberant | |
#49324 | teeming | |
#50345 | voluminous | |
#61296 | verdant | |
#66215 | torrential | |
#75439 | profuse | |
#78329 | luxuriant | |
#83140 | riotous | |
#83582 | abounding | |
#118554 | valueless | |
#212539 | plenteous | |
#291090 | overabundant | |
#327831 | superabundant |
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