Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.
Scarcely, only just.
The Virgin quite for her requeſt / The God that ſits at marriage feaſt; / He at their invoking came / But with a ſcarce-wel-lighted flame; / And in his Garland as he ſtood, / Ye might diſcern a Cipreſs bud.
A surname.
From Middle English scars, scarse, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncerta...
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