scarce
日本語WordNet
deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
only a very short time before; "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
JMdict
AIによる解説
An adjective meaning insufficient to meet demand; rare or uncommon. Often used in economics to describe limited resources relative to unlimited wants.
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The administration has scarcely begun implementing promised reforms, disappointing constituents who anticipated swift decisive action.
行政は約束された改革の実施をほとんど開始していません。迅速な決定的な行動を期待していた有権者を失望させています。
Scarcely any resources were allocated to address the deteriorating infrastructure threatening public safety in rural regions.
農村地域の公共の安全を脅かす悪化するインフラに対処するために割り当てられた資源はほとんどありませんでした。
The smartphone has become indispensable in contemporary society, enabling connectivity that previous generations could scarcely imagine despite technological advances in other domains.
スマートフォンは現代社会で不可欠になり、他の領域での技術的進歩にもかかわらず、以前の世代がほとんど想像できなかった接続性を可能にしている。
Pronunciation data from ipa-dict (MIT License) based on cmudict-ipa by @lingz