Antonyms for droughtdrought

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1. drought

   Antonyms:
   moisture, refreshment, dew, deluge, slaking, quenching, watering, irrigation

   Synonyms:
   dryness, aridity, parching, thirst

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1. • Dryness
   • Time Period

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. drought, drouthnoun

   a shortage of rainfall

   "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

   Synonyms:
   drouth

2. drought, drouthnoun

   a prolonged shortage

   "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"

   Synonyms:
   drouth

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1. droughtnoun

   Synonyms:
   aridity, dryness, scarcity, dearth

How to use drought in a sentence?

1. The Drought Monitor:

   Short-term moderate and severe drought continued to expand, especially in the New York City area, New Jersey, and New England, where rainfall was sparse and temperatures were a few degrees above normal.

2. Zi Sai:

   Drought has cut production by about half this spring.

3. Winemaker Forrest:

   Being able to reduce the amount of sugar the plant is producing to put into the grape has tremendous commercial potential for all white wine varietals, particularly from global warming and hotter climates, this year, in a drought, I've applied that technique to other white varietals ... and hence I won't be making a 14 percent Chardonnay, I'll be able to keep it at 13 percent.

4. Daniel Swain:

   Everything from the Rocky Mountain continental divide westward, including Colorado, Utah, Sierra Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico have fire conditions that look really, potentially explosive. The drought is even worse in those places than in Southern California, it looks pretty likely that it will be a severe fire season across most of West Linn.

5. Deborah Tabart:

   What we're concerned about is places like western New South Wales where the drought over the last 10 years has just had this cumulative effect -- river systems completely dry for years, river red gums, which are the lifeblood of koalas, dead.

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