| Main Entry: | scarcity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
Synonyms: |
dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness, shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, commonness, excess, surplus |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
Synonyms: |
birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want, weak point, weakness |
Antonyms: |
advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
Synonyms: |
absence, bug*, dearth, defalcation, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, inability to hack it, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness |
Antonyms: |
adequacy, enough, faultlessness, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity |
| Main Entry: | drought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dryness; shortage of supply |
Synonyms: |
aridity, dearth, deficiency, dehydration, desiccation, dry spell, insufficiency, lack, need, parchedness, rainlessness, scarcity, want |
Antonyms: |
monsoon, wetness |
| Main Entry: | famine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hunger |
Synonyms: |
dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want |
Antonyms: |
feast, plenty, stores, supply |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
Synonyms: |
abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | shortage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
Synonyms: |
curtailment, dearth, defalcation, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarcity, shortfall, tightness, underage, want, weakness |
Antonyms: |
abundance, ample, enough, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, need |
Synonyms: |
absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, exiguousness, famine, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, neediness, paucity, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
Antonyms: |
abundance, plenty |
| Main Entry: | infrequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rarity |
Synonyms: |
irregularity, scarcity, uncommonness, unpredictability |