Synonyms of drought

drought

noun

ˈdrau̇t 

variants also drouth

as in shortage

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

there's been a drought of good movies this year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shortage
• lack
• deficiency
• famine
• deficit
• scarcity
• poverty
• absence
• inadequacy
• paucity
• insufficiency
• crunch
• dearth
• undersupply
• failure
• lacuna
• scantiness
• pinch
• inadequateness
• scarceness
• omission
• want
• necessity
• privation
• meagerness
• skimpiness
• need
• poorness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• abundance
• amplitude
• adequacy
• wealth
• sufficiency
• plenty
• opulence
• surplus
• plenitude
• excess
• oversupply
• overabundance
• surfeit
• bountifulness
• copiousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of drought

Despite two wars, a heatwave, a drought, and a blast of inflation, Europeans are surprisingly upbeat about themselves, ING’s Marieke Blom wrote recently. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

After difficult negotiations, governments postponed a decision on proactive drought management until COP18. — Shooka Bidarian, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Osnato said a severe heat wave cut European wheat production by roughly 8 million to 10 million tons, while drought also reduced hard red winter wheat output in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

Severe droughts caused water restrictions, affecting more than a million people, from 2014-2016, and more recently in 2020. — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026