Scarcity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCARCITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being scarce
• the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage
• inadequate supply
• 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.
• a small and inadequate amount

Words related to SCARCITY

paucity14 scarcities14

How to use SCARCITY in a sentence

• But the women were so terrified, at first, that we gave such farms a wide berth when scarcity of water did not force us to camp within the enclosures.
• Except in the scarcity of trees, their surface is very much like other portions of what is considered the best farming land.
• Persia is, on the whole, very thinly populated, on account of the scarcity of water.
• Every day reduced their provisions, and, as scarcity became greater, the unbridled excesses of the furious soldiers exercised the wildest outrages on the peasantry.
• I hope, however, the scarcity is rather artificial than real.
• There was no scarcity of provisions, and a large breach was made in the reserves.
• The special zest with which this animal was pursued may have arisen in part from its scarcity.
• Lieutenant Walter suffers more than any of us from the scarcity of water, and I noticed that Miss Herbey reserved almost the whole of her own share for his use.
• Necker desires me to make known this scarcity to our merchants, in hopes they would send supplies.
• We may conjecture, that the reason of the scarcity of historians during this period, was the destruction of the convents, which ensued so soon after.
• But soon after this came a succession of dry seasons, which caused a great scarcity of food almost amounting to a famine, and many moved away to distant streams.
• There is a very noticeable scarcity of roof-holes, aside from those of the first terrace.
• Considering the scarcity of staunch horse-flesh, the price asked was very moderate, and I closed the bargain on the spot.
• He had thoroughly learned the misery of extensive building operations combined with a scarcity of money.
• The lady wielded the pen for nearly a year, but the scarcity of printing-paper compelled her to close her office, a few months before our arrival.
• They had always suffered from the occasional scarcity due to the ill-humour of the Spanish King or the natural failure of the Sicilian harvest.
• Hunting furnished no small addition to the food supply of the settlement, for the English conquest had brought about scarcity at this as well as other Western posts.
• Lack of provisions and scarcity of water drove me the next morning across the bay.
• It was plain, from the success of the first experiment, that there would never be a scarcity of pupils.
• The world has never had reason to complain of the scarcity of monarchs, at least in our time.
• That a scarcity prevails of every article, not only of luxury but even the necessaries of life, is a certain fact.
• Mass production, transportation, construction and marketing ushered in an era of surplus that replaced the age of comparative scarcity with an age of rapidly increasing abundance.
• Never was a scarcity of cash and an exuberance of paper a subject of complaint in this nation.
• The scarcity of surgeons to meet the immense demand, and, perhaps, a little skill shown in dressing wounds, secured me this appointment.
• It is necessary to explain the cause of this scarcity of water.
• She has proclaimed her own scarcity of provisions at home, and she must depend on our supplies to support her armament.

Similar words containing SCARC without suffix ity

scarce10 scarcer11 scarcely15 scarcest12 scarcement16 scarceness14 scarcities14 scarcements17 scarcenesses16

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