scarce

adjective/skɛrs/

Frequency rank: #6,776 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

not enough in supply; rare or hard to find.

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Example sentence

Clean water is scarce in many parts of the world.

Synonyms & related words

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