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dearth

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dearth

1 a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

  • there was a dearth of usable firewood at the campsite
Synonyms of dearth

crunch, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
Words Related to dearth

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation
Near Antonyms of dearth

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus
Antonyms of dearth

abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth

2 the fact or state of being absent

  • the dearth of salesclerks at the shoe store annoyed us
Synonyms of dearth

absence, lack, want
Words Related to dearth

deficiency, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness, undersupply

deprivation, loss, necessity, need, needfulness, omission

privation

blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuum, void
Near Antonyms of dearth

abundance, amplitude, bounty, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty, wealth

adequacy, sufficiency

excess, overabundance, oversupply, superabundance, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood

bushel, deal, gobs, heap, loads, lot, mass, mountain, much, oodles, peck, pile, pot, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, volume, wad

fund, pool, stock, supply

cache, hoard, stash, stockpile
Antonyms of dearth

presence

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