Food is still scarce in the region.
Source: tatoeba (45152)
Scarce
//ˈskɛəs//
Synonyms for "scarce" (80 found)
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Antonyms
6 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
10 entriesdistinct from
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
53 entriesShowing 16 of 53 words.
similar
9 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 37 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπάνιος adj (something rare, in low supply)
Arabic
1 entries- نَادِر adj (something rare, in low supply)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qıt adj (something rare, in low supply)
- qəhət adj (something rare, in low supply)
Bikol Central
1 entries- ipo adj (something rare, in low supply)
Bulgarian
2 entries- недостатъчен adj (something rare, in low supply)
- оскъден adj (something rare, in low supply)
Catalan
1 entries- escàs adj (something rare, in low supply)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 缺乏的 adj (something rare, in low supply)
Czech
1 entries- vzácný adj (something rare, in low supply)
Danish
1 entries- knap adj (something rare, in low supply)
Dutch
1 entries- schaars adj (something rare, in low supply)
Esperanto
1 entries- malabunda adj (something rare, in low supply)
Estonian
1 entries- napp adj (something rare, in low supply)
Finnish
3 entries- harvinainen adj (something rare, in low supply)
- niukka adj (something rare, in low supply)
- riittämätön adj (something rare, in low supply)
French
1 entries- rare adj (something rare, in low supply)
Galician
1 entries- escaso adj (something rare, in low supply)
German
1 entries- spärlich adj (something rare, in low supply)
Hungarian
2 entries- gyér adj (something rare, in low supply)
- ritka adj (something rare, in low supply)
Ido
1 entries- skarsa adj (something rare, in low supply)
Indonesian
1 entries- langka adj (something rare, in low supply)
Italian
1 entries- scarso adj (something rare, in low supply)
Japanese
2 entries- 珍しい adj (something rare, in low supply)
- 稀 adj (something rare, in low supply)
Korean
1 entries- 드문 adj (something rare, in low supply)
Latvian
1 entries- trūcīgs adj (something rare, in low supply)
Macedonian
1 entries- оскуден adj (something rare, in low supply)
Middle English
1 entries- scars adj (something rare, in low supply)
Māori
4 entries- mōmōhanga adj (something rare, in low supply)
- mōtī adj (something rare, in low supply)
- onge adj (something rare, in low supply)
- ongeonge adj (something rare, in low supply)
Navajo
1 entries- bídin hóyééʼ adj (something rare, in low supply)
Persian
4 entries- اندک adj (something rare, in low supply)
- نادر adj (something rare, in low supply)
- ناکافی adj (something rare, in low supply)
- کمیاب adj (something rare, in low supply)
Polish
3 entries- nieobfity adj (something rare, in low supply)
- skąpy adj (something rare, in low supply)
- ubogi adj (something rare, in low supply)
Portuguese
1 entries- escasso adj (something rare, in low supply)
Russian
1 entries- ску́дный adj (something rare, in low supply)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- ainneamh adj (something rare, in low supply)
- gann adj (something rare, in low supply)
Spanish
1 entries- escaso adj (something rare, in low supply)
Swahili
1 entries- nadra adj (something rare, in low supply)
Swedish
1 entries- knapp adj (something rare, in low supply)
Tagalog
1 entries- uyak adj (something rare, in low supply)
Turkish
1 entries- nadir adj (something rare, in low supply)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
Water is scarce in this area.
Source: tatoeba (57924)
Rain is scarce in this country.
Source: tatoeba (59252)
Oil is scarce in this country.
Source: tatoeba (59271)
Showing 4 of 22 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.