| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
Synonyms: |
absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | paucity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, scarcity |
Synonyms: |
absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness, insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity |
Antonyms: |
abundance, affluence, plenty |
| 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 |