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Pronunciation:
[ fˈamɪn], [ fˈamɪn], [ f_ˈa_m_ɪ_n]
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Synonyms for Famine:
n.
• dearth (noun)- need,
- lack,
- defect,
- absence,
- meagerness,
- scantness,
- shortage,
- privation,
- default,
- deficiency.
- craving,
- desire,
- sweet tooth,
- appetency,
- yen,
- ravenousness,
- lust,
- emptiness,
- greed,
- Appetition,
- mania,
- voracity,
- yearning,
- void,
- ache,
- appetence,
- bottomless pit,
- longing.
- 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.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
• 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.
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
starvation.
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Noun, singular or mass
starvation.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
Fame.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
hunger.
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Noun, singular or mass
hunger.
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Proper noun, singular
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:
Hyponym for Famine:
n.
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event
disaster, calamity, cataclysm, tragedy, catastrophe.
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event
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