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drought

noun

variants: also drouth

Synonyms and Antonyms of drought

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

There's been a drought of good movies this year.

Synonyms of drought

crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want

Words Related to drought

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms of drought

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms of drought

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

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