Scarce

Adjective

 * 1) Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement.
 * 2) Difficult to find, due to scarcity.

Adverb

 * 1)  Scarcely, only just.
 * 2) *1854,, :
 * And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you [...].
 * 1) *1898,, Chapter 4:
 * Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.
 * 1) *1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 122:
 * Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.

Adverbs for Scarce
alarmingly; seriously; critically; locally; universally; lamentably; fearfully; uncommonly; unusually; curiously; unaccountably; inexplicably; inconveniently; miserably; unexpectedly; evidently; deplorably; remarkably; singularly; suddenly.

Thesaurus
almost unheard-of, at a premium, barely, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, curtailed, deficient, exiguous, failing, few, hardly, in short supply, inadequate, infrequent, insufficient, lacking, meager, miserly, niggardly, occasional, out of print, out of season, out of stock, piddling, poor, rare, scant, scanty, scarcely, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom, seldom met with, seldom seen, shortened, shy, skimping, skimpy, slim, slow, sparse, sporadic, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, thin, tight, truncated, uncommon, unfrequent, unique, unusual, wanting

Etymology
From Northern scars:, escars: ( > French échars:), from  *undefined:, probably originally a participle form of *undefined:, from  ex-: + carpere:.

Adjective

 * Arabic: (nāder)
 * Chinese: 缺乏 (quēfá)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: napp
 * Filipino: kakulangan
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 稀な (まれな, marena)
 * Korean: 드문 (deumun)
 * Macedonian: оскуден
 * Persian: (nakafi),  (kamyâb),  (nâdir)
 * Portuguese: escasso
 * Russian: скудный
 * Scottish Gaelic: gann,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: nadra
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: nadir, ender, nadide

Anagrams

 * arcsec