What are the opposite words for surplus?
The word surplus refers to the condition of having more than what is necessary, indicating abundance. Antonyms for surplus include words like deficit, shortage, scarcity, and lack, which are opposing in meaning. Deficit refers to the insufficient amount or inadequacy, reflecting the opposite of surplus. Shortage implies the scarcity of something essential or required, while scarcity denotes an inadequate supply of something or scarcity. Lack refers to the absence or deficiency of something, indicating an opposite of surplus. These antonyms for surplus effectively illustrate an insufficient amount or scarcity of something essential that contrasts the abundance represented by a surplus.
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- shortage
- poverty
-
lack
- exiguity,
- retrenchment,
- shortness,
- shrinking,
- slightness,
- retrenchments,
- de crease,
- de creases,
- de privation,
- de privations,
- de-crease,
- de-creases,
- de-privation,
- de-privations,
- dis tress,
- dis tresses,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tresses,
- exiguities,
- in adequacies,
- in adequacy,
- in-adequacies,
- in-adequacy,
- insufficiences,
- shortnesses,
- shrinkings,
- slightnesses.
- surplus
- congestion
- deficiency
- excess
- scarcity
-
dividend
- loss.
- drought
- imperfection, inadequacy
- dryness; shortage of supply
-
deficiency, need
- lack.
- want; extreme need, often financial
- extra
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Other relevant words
- peanuts,
- absence,
- bit,
- condition,
- couple,
- crumb,
- crunch,
- deficit,
- demand,
- dram,
- driblet,
- drought,
- famine,
- few,
- glimmer,
- handful,
- inadequateness,
- lacuna,
- lick,
- mite,
- must,
- necessity,
- nip,
- ounce,
- particle,
- paucity,
- ray,
- requirement,
- scantiness,
- scarceness,
- scarcity,
- scatter,
- scattering,
- scintilla,
- scruple,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shortage,
- shred,
- sine qua non,
- smack,
- smatter,
- smattering,
- smidgen,
- soupcon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- speck,
- spot,
- sprinkle,
- sprinkling,
- strain,
- streak,
- suspicion,
- tad,
- touch,
- trace,
- needfulness,
- skosh,
- undersupply,
- defect,
- deficient,
- destitution,
- economy,
- failure,
- frugality,
- inadequacy,
- inadequate,
- insufficient,
- meager,
- poor,
- scantiness,
- short,
- shortcoming,
- shortish.
Antonym of the day
arteria meningea posterior
- Antonyms:
- anterior, front, previous.
