scarce
adverb/skeəs/
/skers/
(literary)- only just; almost not synonym scarcely (1)
- I can scarce remember him.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size’, also ‘mean’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected’.Want to learn more?
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