scarceness
91lack — 1. noun a lack of cash Syn: absence, want, need, deficiency, dearth, shortage, shortfall, scarcity, paucity, scarceness Ant: abundance 2. verb she lacks judgement Syn: be w …
92scarce — I UK [skeə(r)s] / US [skers] adjective Word forms scarce : adjective scarce comparative scarcer superlative scarcest * if something is scarce, there is not very much of it Fresh water and medicines were scarce in the disaster area. scarce natural …
93Blue Orchid — /blu ˈɔkəd/ (say blooh awkuhd) noun Colloquial (sometimes lower case) (among members of the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy) a member of the Royal Australian Air Force. {with reference to the colour of the uniforms worn by RAAF members …
94scarce — /skɛəs / (say skairs) adjective (scarcer, scarcest) 1. insufficient for the need or demand; not abundant: commodities scarce in wartime. 2. seldom met with; rare: a scarce book. –adverb 3. Obsolete scarcely. –phrase 4. make oneself scarce,… …
95paucity — [n] lack, scarcity absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness, insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity; concepts… …
96scarce — [skers] adj. scarcer, scarcest [ME scars < NormFr escars (for OFr eschars) < VL * escarpsus, for L excerptus, pp. of excerpere, to pick out, select (see EXCERPT); hence, that which is picked out and therefore scarce] 1. not common; rarely… …
97inadequacy — noun 1. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 1) the inadequacy of unemployment benefits • Syn: ↑insufficiency, ↑deficiency • Ant: ↑adequacy, ↑sufficiency ( …
98infrequency — noun noteworthy scarcity • Syn: ↑rarity, ↑rareness • Derivationally related forms: ↑infrequent, ↑rare (for: ↑rareness), ↑rare ( …
99rareness — noun noteworthy scarcity • Syn: ↑rarity, ↑infrequency • Derivationally related forms: ↑infrequent (for: ↑infrequency), ↑rare, ↑rare ( …
100scarce — adj. & adv. adj. 1 (usu. predic.) (esp. of food, money, etc.) insufficient for the demand; scanty. 2 hard to find; rare. adv. archaic or literary scarcely. Phrases and idioms: make oneself scarce colloq. keep out of the way; surreptitiously… …
