Tiny vs Scarce - What's the difference?

tiny | scarce |

As adjectives the difference between tiny and scarce

is that tiny is very small while scarce is uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

As a noun tiny

is a small child; an infant.

As an adverb scarce is

scarcely, only just.

tiny

English

Adjective

(er)

Very small.

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Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* huge, large, big

Derived terms

* tinyness

Noun

(tinies)

A small child; an infant.

*1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 28:

*:‘You know I loved your husband like a brother, and you know I've loved you and Sylvia ever since she was a tiny .’

* 1982 , Young children in China (page 84)

The lessons we saw have been well suited to the age of the children as regards music, singing and moving (and stories about animals for the tinies and more abstract themes for the older children).

Anything very small.

* 1956 , Victoria Sackville-West, Even More For Your Garden (page 102)

Might I now add a plea for the smaller irises, the tinies ? They, also, should be divided up and replanted just now.

Anagrams

scarce

English

(wikipedia scarce)

Adjective

(er)

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

* (John Locke)

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

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

* (John Milton)

A region scarce of prey.

Adverb

(-)

Scarcely, only just.

* Milton

With a scarce well-lighted flame.

* 1854 , (Edgar Allen Poe), (The Raven):

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

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) 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.

* 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.