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shortage - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | shortage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, paucity, pinch, poverty, scarcity, shortfall, want, weakness, defalcation, leanness, scantiness, tightness, underage |
| Antonyms: | abundance, ample, enough, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, default, defect, deficiency, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, shortage, want, exiguousness, rareness, scantiness, scantness, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, excess, plenty, sufficiency, plentifulness |
| 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, mistake, patch, rift, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, vice, want, weakness, marring, rough spot, unsoundness, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
| Synonyms: | absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shrinkage, shrinking, stint, want, exiguity, insufficience, retrenchment, scantiness, shortness, slightness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | paucity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, shortage, smallness, fewness, insufficience, scantiness, scarceness, slenderness, slightness, sparseness, sparsity |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, plenty |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, barrenness, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, famine, hardship, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessity, pass, paucity, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, vacancy, abjection, aridity, beggary, exiguity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, insolvency, necessitousness, pauperism, pennilessness, straits, underdevelopment |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | shortfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit; imperfection |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, deficiency, flaw, in the red, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, loss, shortage, shortcoming, defectiveness, in the hole, incompleteness, insufficience, red ink, underage |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, paucity, penury, poorness, privation, shortage, want, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, pennilessness |
| Notes: | knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of |
| Antonyms: | luxury, riches, wealth |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, need |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, famine, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, exiguousness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, pauperism, scantiness, skimpiness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, plenty |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emergency; pressing lack |
| Synonyms: | deficiency, exigency, inadequacy, insufficiency, necessity, obligation, shortage, urgency, want |
| Antonyms: | comfort, fortune, have, plenty |
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