scarcer in English

adjective

1

(especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand.

as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed

synonyms: in short supply, scant, scanty, meager, sparse, short, hard to find, hard to come by, too little, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, at a premium, paltry, negligible, rare/scarce as hen's teeth, rarer/scarcer than hen's teeth, not to be had for love or money, exiguous

adjective

• in short supply, scant, scanty, meager, sparse, short, hard to find, hard to come by, too little, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, at a premium, paltry, negligible, rare/scarce as hen's teeth, rarer/scarcer than hen's teeth, not to be had for love or money, exiguous
• rare, few and far between, uncommon, unusual

Use "scarcer" in a sentence

1. 18 The scarcer the commodity - eg accountancy - the more the applicant will exercise his power of selection.

2. Between 14 and 25 million Berber-speakers live within this region, most densely in Algeria and Morocco, becoming generally scarcer

3. ---Habitat--- The Avens (Geum urbanum, Linn.), belonging to the order Rosacece, its genus being nearly related to the Potentilla genus, is a common wayside plant in Great Britain, abundant in woods and hedges in England, Ireland and southern Scotland, though becoming scarcer in the north.