OneLook
Dictionary Search

Home    Customize    Browse Dictionaries    Reverse Dictionary    Help  



Word or phrase:  

Find definitions   Find translations   Search all dictionaries

Jump to: General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, Phrases 

We found 31 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word scarce:
Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "scarce" is defined.

General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. scarce: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. scarce: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. Scarce, scarce: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. scarce: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Scarce: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. scarce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. scarce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. scarce: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. scarce: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. scarce: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. scarce: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. scarce: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. scarce: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  15. Scarce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Scarce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. scarce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. scarce: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. scarce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. scarce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. scarce: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. scarce: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. scarce: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. scarce: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. scarce: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarce: Numismatic Dictionary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scarce: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics [home, info]
  2. scarce: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCARCE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. scarce: Idioms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scarce: Book Collectors' Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions (scarce)

adjective:  not enough; hard to find ("Meat was scarce during the war")
adjective:  deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand ("Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought")
adverb:  by a small margin ("Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open")
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #60527)

Word origin

Try out OneLook's
reverse dictionary feature.


Phrases that include scarce:   as scarce as hen's teeth, make scarce, to make one's self scarce, make myself scarce, make yourselves scarce, more...

Words similar to scarce:   barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarceness, scarcer, scarcest, meager, rare, more...


Additional searches for scarce...

Search completed in 0.014 seconds.

OneLook
Dictionary Search

Home    Customize    Browse Dictionaries    Reverse Dictionary    Help   Link to us   Word of the Day