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scarcity 音标拼音: [sk'ɛrsɪti] n. 缺乏,不足,缺少 缺乏,不足,缺少 scarcity n 1: a small and inadequate amount [ synonym: { scarcity}, { scarceness}] [ ant: { abundance}, { copiousness}, { teemingness}] Scarceness \ Scarce" ness\, Scarcity \ Scar" ci* ty\, n. The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity. -- Rambler. [ 1913 Webster] The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness. -- Collier. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency. [ 1913 Webster] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for " scarcity": absence, chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, deficiency, exiguity, fewness, inadequacy, inadequateness, infrequence, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, miserliness, need, niggardliness, occasionalness, paucity, poverty, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scrimpiness, seldomness, shortage, skimpiness, slowness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness, tightness, uncommonness, underage, unfrequentness, uniqueness, unusualness, want
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