scarce
/skɛrs/
अभाव
adjective
1. scarce
deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
"fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
adverb
1. barely, hardly, just, scarcely
only a very short time before
"we hardly knew them"
"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
2. hardly, scarcely, barely
almost not
"he hardly ever goes fishing"
"he was scarce sixteen years old"
"they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
"I can hardly hear what she is saying"
"she barely seemed to notice him"
"we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles"
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