Synonyms of droughts

droughts

noun

variants also drouths

plural of drought

as in shortages

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

there's been a drought of good movies this year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shortages
• lacks
• famines
• deficiencies
• deficits
• scarcities
• inadequacies
• absences
• insufficiencies
• dearths
• poverties
• lacunae
• failures
• undersupplies
• crunches
• wants
• paucities
• omissions
• pinches
• privations
• necessities
• needs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• amplitudes
• adequacies
• abundances
• sufficiencies
• wealths
• surpluses
• plenties
• plenitudes
• excesses
• oversupplies
• opulences
• surfeits
• overabundances

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of droughts

Many of them, like Tubbs, were refugee Midwesterners, sick of parching droughts and devouring plagues of locusts, the insects descending in buzzing clouds thick enough to blacken the noonday sun. — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

This will cause extreme flooding in some regions and droughts and wildfires in others. — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026

Water is rationed, temperatures are breaking records, and droughts have been increasingly severe. — Sarah Yerkes, Time, 10 July 2026

Its biggest impacts — from droughts to downpours to heat waves — are likely to be most felt in the fall and winter, meteorologists said. — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 9 July 2026

The new treatment process is needed to combat future droughts and support expanding industries in the Wichita area, Janzen said Tuesday. — Chance Swaim, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026

Throughout the coming months, El Niño is forecast to bring droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather to every continent on Earth. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 8 July 2026

The beef industry has been dealing with the smallest cattle herd in 75 years due to prolonged droughts. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 7 July 2026

Give them 1 inch of water each week, increasing to 2 inches during droughts and fruit production. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 July 2026