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Synonyms and Antonyms of famine
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number there's a famine of good general practitioners in many rural areas Synonyms of famine crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, deficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, wantWords Related to famine absence, omission; meagerness, poorness, skimpiness; necessity, need, privationNear Antonyms of famine bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplusAntonyms of famine abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth
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