Synonyms for scarce

Adjective

1. scarce, insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient

usage: not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"

2. scarce (vs. abundant), rare, tight, meager#1, meagre#1, meagerly

usage: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

Adverb

1. barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce

usage: by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats