scarce, lacking

Kanji in this word

• 乏 destitution

Example sentences

• 彼かれはいつもお金かねが乏とぼしい。

  Kare wa itsumo okane ga toboshii.

  He's always short of money.

• この国くには天然てんねん資源しげんに乏とぼしい。

  Kono kuni wa tennen shigen ni toboshii.

  This country is poor in natural resources.

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR.