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What is the adjective for scarcest?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb scarcen which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

scarce
  1. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
  2. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. meagre, scant, scanty, sparse, skimpy, meager, paltry, exiguous, poor, negligible, spare, light, sparing, slim, slender, limited, stingy, skimp, few, failing, shortened, threatened, truncated, hand-to-mouth, hard to come by, thin on the ground, at a premium, not to be had, like gold dust, hard to find, seldom met with, not to be had for love nor money, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, short, small, measly, wanting, little, lacking, minimal, insubstantial, thin, inconsiderable, rare, reduced, low, modest, in short supply … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Coastal land resources are scarce because of high demand and low supply.”
      “Seasonal price fluctuations have not been as large due to scarce supplies.”
      “This practice has led to very scarce sightings of birds near settlements and highways all over Wokha District.”
scarcer
  1. comparative form of scarce: more scarce
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fewer, less, rarer
  3. Examples:
      4. “With more families with two full-time job holders, there were more and more households in which time was scarcer than money.”
      “Apart from it becoming scarcer, the great lakes and reservoirs are being contaminated and no longer is the water as pure as in days gone by.”
      “In every county in Britain, common wild flowers are becoming scarcer, while scarce species may be dying out altogether.”
scarcest
  1. superlative form of scarce: most scarce
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meagrest, scantest, scantiest, sparsest, skimpiest, meagerest, paltriest, poorest, sparest, lightest, slimmest, slenderest, stingiest, thinnest on the ground, most exiguous, most negligible, most sparing, most limited, most skimp, most threatened, most truncated, most insufficient, most deficient, most inadequate, shortest, measliest, most wanting, most lacking, smallest, least, lowest, most minimal, most insubstantial, most reduced, most diminished, most inconsiderable, puniest, barest, most dwindling, barrenest, most derisory, shiest, slightest, weakest, most restricted, most tenuous, shabbiest, most unproductive, most modest, miserablest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “One of the scarcest things about this mine was timber with which to support the roof of the only drift that was being opened.”
      “This volume is said to be one of the scarcest books in the English language.”
      “Ice is about the scarcest thing in England, and cannot be had at the majority of bars.”
scarcened
  1. simple past tense of scarcen
scarcening
  1. present participle of scarcen
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