Synonyms for dearth
dɜrθdearth

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1. dearthnoun

   Scarcity; a lack or short supply.

   Synonyms:
   paucity, scarcity

2. dearthnoun

   Synonyms:
   famine, shortage

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. dearth

   Synonyms:
   defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

   Antonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

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1. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

   an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage, deficit, paucity, famine

2. dearth, paucitynoun

   an insufficient quantity or number

   Synonyms:
   shortage, paucity, famine

Matched Categories

1. • Lack
   • Scarcity

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. dearthnoun

   Synonyms:
   scarcity, insufficiency, deficiency, short supply

2. dearthnoun

   Synonyms:
   need, want, lack, famine, short commons

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1. dearthnoun

   Synonyms:
   scarcity, lack, deficiency, paucity, want

   Antonyms:
   plenty

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "dearth":

   shortage, scarcity, paucity, lack, rarity

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1. Sarang Gadkari:

   Clearly there has been a lot of volatility, but it has been more muted in loans than for high yield bonds, from a supply standpoint, there has also been a relative dearth of new institutional loan issuance, which, when combined with the CLO demand, has led to less volatility.

2. Sarang Gadkari:

   From a supply standpoint, there has also been a relative dearth of new institutional loan issuance, which, when combined with the CLO demand, has led to less volatility.

3. Ashima:

   Kill me is just an honest and knee-jerk reaction to dearth of substance.

4. Lawrence Newman:

   All the drugs that we currently use for migraine were found just by chance. Someone had another condition and then the drug was found to reduce their migraine, there’s a dearth of funding and studies for this. I wouldn’t turn down anything as potentially promising; it just needs to be validated.

5. Lydia Child:

   Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.