1) American musical trio 2) At a premium 3) Blemish by church rarely seen 4) Deficient 5) Deficient in quantity 6) Elusive 7) Few and far between 8) French word used in English 9) Hard to come by 10) Hard to dig up 11) Hard to find 12) Hard to get 13) Hardly uncommon 14) In short supply 15) Inadequate 1) Barely 2) Few 3) Hardly 4) Inadequate 5) Inshortsupply 6) Insufficient 7) Lacking 8) Meager 9) Meagerly 10) Meagre 11) Rare 12) Scanty 13) Scarcely 14) Sparse 15) Thee 
• (adv.) Alt. of Scarcely • (superl.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. • (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of. • (superl.) Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
Available in small supply; opposite of abundant. Usually meaningful only in relative terms, compared to demand and/or to supply at another place or time. See factor abundance, factor scarcity.
Not common, but not as uncommon as rare.
Scarce (skârs) adjective [ Compar. Scarcer (skâr'sẽr); superl. Scarcest .] [ Middle English scars , Old French escars , eschars , Late Latin scarpsus , excarpsus , for Latin excerptus ,...
[adj] - not enough 2. [adj] - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
scarce 1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: 'Fresh meat has become scarce because of so many cattle freezing and starving as a result of the harsh winter.' 2. Hard to find; absent or rare: 'Silver coins are scarce now except in coin shops.' 3. Available in small supply; opposite of abundant. Usually meaningful only in...
adjective not enough; hard to find; `meat was scarce during the war`
[SAT terms] deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand[Intelligent words] deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand