Definition for Drought:

• a temporary shortage of rainfall

Synonyms for Drought:

• n.

  •
  • dry,
  • dust bowl,
  • rainless period,
  • dry spell,
  • fail,
  • dehydration.
  •absence (noun)
  • needs,
  • inadequacy,
  • unavailability,
  • unavailabilities.
  •drought (noun)
  • shortage,
  • Parchedness,
  • aridity,
  • want,
  • desiccation.
  •dryness (noun)
  • desert.
  •dryness; shortage of supply (noun)
  • deficiency,
  • insufficiency,
  • rainlessness,
  • need,
  • lack,
  • dearth.
  •scarcity (noun)
  • un commonnesses,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • in frequencies,
  • un commonness,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • in frequency,
  • rarenesses,
  • un-commonness,
  • in-frequencies,
  • exiguities,
  • sparsities,
  • in-frequency.
  •state (noun)
  • Drouth,
  • drought.
  •thirst (noun)
  • de-sire,
  • thirstinesses,
  • de sire,
  • de-sires,
  • de sires.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • parch,
  • the dry season,
  • hunger.
  •climate
  • weather.

Paraphrases for Drought:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    drought-stricken.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    dry, arid.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Islands, dry, arid.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Driest, dryland, shortage, flooding, arid.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    drought-affected, drought-related, drought-prone.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dryness.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    aridity, dehydration, dryness, desiccation.

Antonyms for Drought:

• n.

  • dryness; shortage of supply
    excess, surplus, monsoon, plenty, wetness, abundance, sufficiency.
  • Other antonyms:
    adequacy, amplitude, overabundance, opulence, plenitude, oversupply, bountifulness, wealth, copiousness, surfeit.

Drought Sentence Examples:

• The difficulties from drought and from the violence of the winds, which might prove fatal to young and even to somewhat advanced plantations, are very serious, but in 1866 upwards of 400, 000 trees had been planted and great quantities of seeds sown.

• It was a beautiful morning, though rather warm, and just after the break - up of the drought.

Homophones for Drought:

• derogate, dearest, dress hat, drugget, dry-shod, drugged, dark-coated, draught, dress suit, detract, dressed, dress out, draughty, diarist, dyer's weed, Dyer's Woad, drogheda, dry socket, drag out, direct tide, dress code, druggist, directed, direct dye, direct, drogue chute.

Hyponym for Drought:

• n.

  • state
    waterlessness, xerotes, dryness.
  • time
    time period, period, period of time.