Synonyms of famines

famines

noun

plural of famine

as in shortages

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

there's a famine of good general practitioners in many rural areas

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of famines

Founded in 1599, the Grassmayr Bell Foundry, in Innsbruck, western Austria, has survived wars, famines, epidemics and economic challenges. — Philipp Jenne, Fortune, 30 July 2026

The downstream effects of that cascade can bring devastation to some places, such as by raising the risks of famines, fires and floods in Southeast Asia. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 10 July 2026

Models suggest Pacific Ocean surface temperatures could climb to a peak anomaly of 3°C above average by late 2026, a threshold reached only once in recorded history, during the catastrophic 1877–78 event that triggered deadly famines across three continents. — Dr. Douglas M. Hasson, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026

Tuberculosis, for instance, is estimated to have caused about a billion deaths across history, more than all famines and wars combined. — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026

This was enough to cause widespread crop failures and famines. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026

Imagine what Irish and Indian patriots would have done to the innocent world language had the British staged massacres and caused famines on their lands. — John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025

This was further supported by documentary evidence of poorer crop yields, weak harvests, and resultant famines. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025

The 2025 Global Outlook report by the UN World Food Program (WFP) found that 319 million people face acute hunger, an increase of over 130 percent from pre-2020 levels, and that two famines are unfolding concurrently, in Gaza and in Sudan. — Arif Husain, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2025