Definition for Dearth:

• an insufficient quantity or number

Synonyms for Dearth:

• n.

  •
  • meagre,
  • in short/limited supply,
  • inadequate,
  • not go far,
  • miserable,
  • tight,
  • derisory,
  • scant,
  • insufficient,
  • pitiful.
  •absence (noun)
  • unavailabilities,
  • needs,
  • unavailability.
  •default (noun)
  • de-faults,
  • over looking,
  • over-sights,
  • dis-regards,
  • over-sight,
  • over sight,
  • de-fault,
  • overlookings,
  • non-payments,
  • dis regard,
  • de fault,
  • over-looking,
  • over sights,
  • non payment,
  • dis regards,
  • non payments,
  • de faults,
  • dis-regard.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • de merits,
  • de-merit,
  • insufficiences,
  • inability hack it,
  • de merit,
  • de-merits.
  •drought (noun)
  • parchednesses,
  • de hydration,
  • desiccations,
  • rainlessnesses,
  • dry spells,
  • de hydrations,
  • de-hydration,
  • de-hydrations,
  • Dehydrations.
  •fewness (noun)
  • handful,
  • sprinkling,
  • minimum,
  • smattering.
  •paucity (noun)
  • fewnesses,
  • sparsities,
  • slendernesses,
  • sparsenesses.
  •poverty (noun)
  • distress,
  • mendicancy,
  • tenuity,
  • impoverishment,
  • privation,
  • pauperism,
  • destitution,
  • Beggarliness,
  • insufficiency,
  • embarrassment,
  • asceticism,
  • poorness,
  • pennilessness,
  • indigence,
  • hardship,
  • insolvency,
  • bankruptcy,
  • homelessness.
  •scarcity (noun)
  • rarenesses,
  • in frequencies,
  • in-frequencies,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • un commonness,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • in frequency,
  • un-commonness,
  • in-frequency,
  • un commonnesses.
  •shortage (noun)
  • tightness,
  • scantness,
  • leanness,
  • underage,
  • scarceness.
  •state (noun)
  • dearth.
  •want (noun)
  • exiguousnesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • absence.
  •tedium
  • tediousness.

Paraphrases for Dearth:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortage, paucity.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    scarcity, lack, inadequacy, deficiency.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficit, insufficient.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortfall, insufficiency, rarity, absence, unavailability, non-availability, shortcoming, availability, failure, inadequate.

Antonyms for Dearth:

• n.

  • insufficiency, scarcity
    adequacy, plenty, perfection, advantage, wealth, plentifulness, excess, success, luxury, sufficiency, abundance, enough.
  • Other antonyms:
    bountifulness, much, amplitude, pool, fund, supply, opulence, stockpile, hoard, loads, bounty, gobs, copiousness, stash, deluge, presence, stock, volume, quantity, pile, cache, flood, plenteousness.

Dearth Sentence Examples:

• Sometimes an engraving, not costly, but lovely where there is an utter dearth of all objects of art whatever.

• There were no signs of excitement or activity at the barracks; the afternoon gatherings on the Piazza were occupied with nothing more serious than the prospects of lawn tennis and the grievous dearth of dances.

Homophones for Dearth:

• data rate, derrida, dart, dryad, dry-eyed, de-aerate, dry rot, dotard, diderot, diorite, deathrate, dirt, derate, dehydrate, dirty, deride, dry out, deaerate, dehydrated, death rate, deteriorate, dread, dreaded, die hard, dried, dried-out, diehard, die-hard, Drouth, druid, dard, detroit, dowered, draw out, dorado, dry-rot, do-or-die, dooryard.

Hyponym for Dearth:

• n.

  • state
    want, deficiency, lack.