Synonyms for Famine
ˈfæm ɪnfamine

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

   an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage, deficit, dearth, paucity, famine

2. faminenoun

   a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

   Synonyms:
   shortage, dearth

Matched Categories

1. • Calamity
   • Lack

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. faminenoun

   Synonyms:
   dearth, scarcity of food

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "famine":

   starvation, hunger

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1. Jamie McGoldrick:

   This epidemic is spreading further and faster than anything we've seen before, what will happen is that this cholera outbreak will in fact exacerbate the conditions and the threat of famine in more places than ever in the country.

2. Peter Ward:

   It's difficult to know just how bad the situation really is, it doesn't look like we are headed for another famine, but the food situation definitely appears to have deteriorated.

3. John Sifton:

   The Taliban represent an abusive authority, a brutal regime that has killed people and repressed and plans to subjugate the human rights of millions of people in coming years, but none of that will matter to those people if they're dead because of famine.

4. Dana Hatch:

   I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

5. Jamie McGoldrick:

   What will happen is that this cholera outbreak will in fact exacerbate the conditions and the threat of famine in more places than ever in the country.