FAMINE Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

famine

noun

ˈfa-mən

as in shortage

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number there's a famine of good general practitioners in many rural areas

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Recent Examples of famine The consequences will ultimately be most severe where needs are already most acute, in countries like Sudan, where the United Nations repeatedly documented famine in 2024 and 2025 and continues to warn of the threat of mass starvation. —

Comfort Ero, Time, 3 Apr. 2026 The diaries also included criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao from 1958 to 1961 that caused a famine estimated to have killed as many as 40 million people. —

Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026 Why is there the perpetual erosion of our environment, and things like poverty, famine, homelessness and hatred and division? —

Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 Since then, it's been feast or famine for UConn. —

ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for famine

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Police began cracking down Saturday, using pepper spray to help clear protesters at the Whitegate refinery in County Cork and vowing to remove others who were endangering critical infrastructure and public safety because gas shortages could prevent response by emergency services.

— Brian Melley, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
The International Energy Agency, S&P Global, BloombergNEF, Wood Mackenzie, and Goldman Sachs have all corroborated Grantham’s point, with the IEA projecting shortages in copper and lithium within a decade.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026