Definition for Famine:

• Scarcity of food; want; destitution.

Synonyms for Famine:

• n.

  •
  • water,
  • appetite,
  • hungry,
  • on an empty stomach,
  • starving.
  •dearth (noun)
  • need,
  • lack,
  • defect,
  • absence,
  • meagerness,
  • scantness,
  • shortage,
  • privation,
  • default,
  • deficiency.
  •famine (noun)
  • destitution,
  • misery,
  • drought.
  •hunger (noun)
  • craving,
  • desire,
  • sweet tooth,
  • appetency,
  • yen,
  • ravenousness,
  • lust,
  • emptiness,
  • greed,
  • Appetition,
  • mania,
  • voracity,
  • yearning,
  • void,
  • ache,
  • appetence,
  • bottomless pit,
  • longing.
  •paucity (noun)
  • scarceness,
  • insufficiency,
  • paltriness,
  • smallness,
  • rarity.
  •poverty (noun)
  • pauperism,
  • indigence,
  • underdevelopment,
  • pennilessness,
  • bankruptcy,
  • distress,
  • exiguity,
  • poorness,
  • insolvency,
  • embarrassment,
  • homelessness,
  • impoverishment,
  • straits,
  • necessity,
  • Necessitousness,
  • debt,
  • hardship,
  • aridity,
  • reduction,
  • Beggarliness,
  • abjection,
  • mendicancy,
  • impecuniousness,
  • asceticism,
  • tenuity,
  • difficulty,
  • penury,
  • beggary,
  • depletion,
  • pinch,
  • barrenness,
  • deficit,
  • pass.
  •scarcity (noun)
  • stringency.
  •starvation (noun)
  • deprivation,
  • malnutrition,
  • inanition.
  •want (noun)
  • Neediness,
  • exigency.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rumble,
  • ravenous,
  • ravening,
  • underfed,
  • gurgle,
  • peckish,
  • famished,
  • starved.

Paraphrases for Famine:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    starvation.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    starvation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Fame.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    hunger.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    hunger.

Antonyms for Famine:

• n.

  • dearth
    plentifulness, excess, sufficiency, abundance.
  • famine
    stores, plenty, supply, feast.
  • hunger
    satisfaction, satiation.
  • paucity
    affluence.
  • poverty
    luxury, wealth, richness.
  • scarcity
    commonness.
  • Other antonyms:
    oversupply, overabundance, opulence, surplus, bountifulness, copiousness, amplitude, surfeit.

Famine Sentence Examples:

• But are worst provided then we; having no huntsmen, they are reduced to famine.

• Cotton and indigo have ruined more men than famine and pestilence.

Homophones for Famine:

• foam, fm, feminine, fanion, fin, fawn, foehn, faun, fabian, finn, Fame, fnma, foeman, fan, fine, foamy, fauna, fun, fen, fume, feynman, Fannie Mae, fabiana, finnan, fohn, FEMA, fanny, fava bean, fain, funny.

Hypernym for Famine:

• n.

  • event
    the Great Starvation, the Great Hunger, the Great Calamity, the Irish Famine.

Hyponym for Famine:

• n.

  • event
    disaster, calamity, cataclysm, tragedy, catastrophe.