scarce: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Suffixes of scarce

  • scarcely
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    scarcely

    • adverb only a very short time before
      scarce; barely; hardly; just.
      • 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
    • adverb almost not
      hardly.
      • he hardly ever goes fishing
      • he was hardly more than sixteen years old
      • they scarcely ever used the emergency generator
  • scarcer
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    scarce

    • adjective deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
      • fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
    • adverb only a very short time before
      scarcely; barely; hardly; just.
      • 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
  • scarcest
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    scarce

    • adjective deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
      • fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
    • adverb only a very short time before
      scarcely; barely; hardly; just.
      • 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
  • scarceness
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    scarceness

    • noun a small and inadequate amount
      scarcity.

About Prefix and Suffix Words

This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `scarce`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.

While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `scarce`, some are not.

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