| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Rarely occurring or appearing: infrequent, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unusual. Idioms: few and far between. See USUAL. 2. Not enough to meet a demand or requirement: deficient, inadequate, insufficient, short, shy1, under, wanting. See BIG, EXCESS. | | ADVERB: | By a very little; almost not: barely, hardly, just, scarcely. See NEAR.
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