166 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈamɪn], [ fˈamɪn], [ f_ˈa_m_ɪ_n]

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Similar words for famine:

• dearth (noun)
• famine (noun)
• hunger (noun)
• impecuniosity (noun)
• impecuniousness (noun)
• insufficiency (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• paucity (noun)
• poverty (noun)
• scarcity (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for famine

Homophones for famine

Hypernyms for famine

Hyponyms for famine

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.
  • impecuniosity (noun)
  • penuriousness.
  • impecuniousness (noun)
  • Impecuniosity.
  • insufficiency (noun)
  • speck,
  • shortfall,
  • scarceness,
  • Flyspeck,
  • niggardliness,
  • pittance,
  • miserliness,
  • stinginess.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • vacancy,
  • exiguousness,
  • slenderness,
  • inadequacy,
  • famishment,
  • sparseness,
  • slightness,
  • paucity,
  • scarcity,
  • want,
  • miss,
  • sparsity,
  • infrequency,
  • starvation,
  • uncommonness,
  • Insufficience,
  • dearth,
  • poverty,
  • Gluttonies,
  • fewness,
  • big eyes,
  • greediness,
  • munchies,
  • a stomach for,
  • eyes for,
  • scantiness,
  • famine,
  • skimpiness,
  • slim pickings,
  • hungriness,
  • esurience,
  • gluttony,
  • hunger,
  • rareness.
  • paucity (noun)
  • rarity,
  • paltriness,
  • smallness,
  • insufficiency.
  • poverty (noun)
  • pennilessness,
  • bankruptcy,
  • embarrassment,
  • asceticism,
  • distress,
  • mendicancy,
  • debt,
  • difficulty,
  • indigence,
  • Beggarliness,
  • impoverishment,
  • pass,
  • insolvency,
  • underdevelopment,
  • straits,
  • abjection,
  • penury,
  • poorness,
  • hardship,
  • homelessness,
  • reduction,
  • pauperism,
  • tenuity,
  • depletion,
  • Necessitousness,
  • impecuniousness.
  • scarcity (noun)
  • stringency.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rumble,
  • ravenous,
  • ravening,
  • underfed,
  • gurgle,
  • peckish,
  • famished,
  • starved.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • exigency,
  • overcharge,
  • fast,
  • inadequateness,
  • barrenness,
  • failure,
  • food shortage,
  • Infecundity,
  • undersupply,
  • defectiveness,
  • sterileness,
  • deficit,
  • Planned Parenthood,
  • extortion,
  • unfruitfulness,
  • exorbitance,
  • beggary,
  • infertility,
  • extravagance,
  • birth control,
  • malnutrition,
  • contraception,
  • omission,
  • unproductiveness,
  • exiguity,
  • necessity,
  • inanition,
  • Neediness,
  • dearness,
  • imperfection,
  • shortcoming,
  • crunch,
  • lacuna,
  • Natural Disaster,
  • Wantage,
  • dryness,
  • loss,
  • ineffectualness,
  • deprivation,
  • impotence,
  • aridity,
  • sterility,
  • family planning,
  • incompleteness,
  • Famines,
  • pinch,
  • voraciousness.

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.

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.