Synonyms of drought

drought

noun

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
• famine
• deficit
• scarcity
• poverty
• deficiency
• inadequacy
• paucity
• insufficiency
• crunch
• dearth
• undersupply
• failure
• pinch
• lacuna
• scantiness
• inadequateness
• absence
• 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