Synonyms for drought
drought

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1. drought

   Synonyms:
   dryness, aridity, parching, thirst

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

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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. • Dryness
   • Time Period

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. droughtnoun

   Synonyms:
   dryness (of weather), aridity, drouth, want of rain

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1. droughtnoun

   Synonyms:
   aridity, dryness, scarcity, dearth

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1. List of paraphrases for "drought":

   droughts, dryness, arid, dry, drought-stricken, drought-related, aridity, sucha, drought-affected, driest, draught

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1. Andrew Schwartz:

   A big part of what we're seeing is natural variability of the climate system, but anthropogenic climate change has enhanced those natural drought signals, that is why we're seeing consecutive years of extreme drought mixed with higher precipitation amounts from the storms that do occur.

2. Tim Steffen:

   What has contributed to the current drought, especially here in Northern Arizona, is two of the driest monsoons on record in 2019 and 2020. That created a problem.

3. Amanda Starbuck:

   It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought.

4. Hollin Kretzmann:

   It’s inexcusable that state regulators are letting oil companies dump toxic waste fluid into California’s water supplies during the worst drought in 1,200 years, the oil industry’s illegal injections need to stop immediately to protect our groundwater.

5. Sam Hodder:

   A giant sequoia that was weakened by drought was then subject to impacts by the bark beetle, which then further weakened the tree and made it more susceptible to mortality from fire.