scarce

scarce

1. niukka, riittämätön, vähäinen

Liittyvät sanat: abundant

Synonyymisanakirja

scarce

vähäinen, niukka, harvinainen, tiukka, puutteellinen, köyhä, vajavainen, riittämätön, määrä, merkittävä määrä.

Rimmaavat sanat

scarce rimmaa näiden kanssa:

vivace, soft ice, freelance, trance...

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Englannin sanakirja

scarce (englanti > suomi)

1. uncommon harvinainen, insufficient riittämätön, deficient niukka

scarce englanniksi

1. uncommon Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

2. (w)

You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.

3. (quote-book)|chapter=3

4. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

A region scarce of prey.

5. puhekieltä scarcely Scarcely, only just.

6. Milton

With a scarce well-lighted flame.

7. 1854, (w), (w):

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you ....

8. 1898, (w), (w) 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.

9. 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.

10. 1969, John Cleese, (w):

Well, it's scarce the replacement then, is it?

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