Scarce vs Chary - What's the difference?
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Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
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, title= Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of .
* (John Milton)
Scarcely, only just.
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* 1854 , (Edgar Allen Poe), (The Raven):
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 122:
(obsolete) Sad; sorrowful; grievous.
Disposed to cherish with care; careful.
Cautious; wary; shy.
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*1598 , Shakespeare, lines 11-12
* 2007 , Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant , ISBN 978-0-399-15446-1 Page 182
Sparing; not lavish; not disposed to give freely.
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Scarce is a related term of chary.
As adjectives the difference between scarce and chary
is that scarce is uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand while chary is (obsolete) sad; sorrowful; grievous.As an adverb scarce
is scarcely, only just.scarce
English
(wikipedia scarce)Adjective
(er)- You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- A region scarce of prey.
Adverb
(-)- With a scarce well-lighted flame.
- And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you [...].
- 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.
- Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.
See also
* make oneself scarceAnagrams
*chary
English
Adjective
(er)- The chariest maid is prodigal enough'' / ''If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.
- Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary / ''As tender nurse her babe from faring ill
- "...When Lord Berek speaks with you and your companions alone, as he must, be chary in your replies."