Khan hiếm, ít có

Hiếm, ít khi tìm thấy

a scarce book

sách hiếm, sách khó tìm

make oneself scarce

(thông tục) đi xa, tránh người khác

khan hiếm

Adj.

Scanty, scant, insufficient, inadequate, deficient,wanting, lacking, rare, unusual, at a premium, in short supply,meagre, few and far between, seldom met with, hard to come by,Chiefly Brit thin on the ground: Good editors are very scarce.

Adj. & adv.

Adj.

(usu. predic.) (esp. of food, money,etc.) insufficient for the demand; scanty.

Hard to find;rare.

Adv. archaic or literary scarcely.

Make oneselfscarce colloq. keep out of the way; surreptitiously disappear.

Scarceness n. [ME f. AF & ONF (e)scars, OF eschars f. Lexcerpere: see EXCERPT]