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

Rising sea levels risk submerging low-lying habitats, and increasingly severe droughts threaten to dry up food and shade. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026

During droughts, algae blooms have turned waterways bright green, posing health threats for people and animals. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Officials say the Susquehanna River, which runs from Cooperstown, New York, to Havre de Grace, Maryland, is only used as a supplemental water supply during severe droughts. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

Heat waves and droughts are also getting more intense due to rising temperatures. — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026

The third largest issue affecting heritage sites, coming in around 30 percent, per the study, was extreme weather events like flooding, storms, droughts, and wildfires. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

The Pacific has seen an unusually busy hurricane season, which experts have attributed to El Niño, which has fueled crippling droughts in Mexico and Central America and floods in other parts of the region. — Fabiola Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

Overall, parts of the world that get more rainfall will experience less petrichor, whereas areas that have droughts will experience more, says Jeppe Lund Nielsen, a professor of microbial physiology at Aalborg University in Denmark. — Gregory Wakeman, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026

Climate change is causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage every year from floods, fires, droughts and other consequences of a rapidly warming planet. — Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026