Definition for Scarcity:

• a small and inadequate amount

Synonyms for Scarcity:

• n.

  •
  • group,
  • one or two,
  • minority,
  • few,
  • hairsbreadth.
  •defect (noun)
  • in juries,
  • un-soundnesses,
  • un soundnesses,
  • dis-coloration,
  • marrings,
  • mis takes,
  • mis take,
  • dis coloration,
  • mis-take,
  • in-jury,
  • rough spots,
  • un-soundness,
  • dis colorations,
  • un soundness,
  • mis-takes,
  • dis-colorations,
  • in jury.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • paucity,
  • sparsity,
  • dearth,
  • insufficiency,
  • infrequency,
  • stringency,
  • uncommonness,
  • exiguity.
  •drought (noun)
  • rainlessnesses,
  • de-hydration,
  • desiccations,
  • Dehydrations,
  • de-hydrations,
  • de hydration,
  • dry spells,
  • parchednesses,
  • de hydrations.
  •fewness (noun)
  • handful,
  • sprinkling,
  • minimum,
  • fewness,
  • smattering.
  •infrequency (noun)
  • unpredictability,
  • unpredictabilities.
  •lack (noun)
  • shortness,
  • retrenchments,
  • shrinking,
  • retrenchment,
  • slightness.
  •poverty (noun)
  • impoverishment,
  • Necessitousness,
  • pauperism,
  • pennilessness,
  • abjection,
  • impecuniousness,
  • underdevelopment,
  • vacancy,
  • penuriousness,
  • under-development.
  •rarity (noun)
  • rarenesses.
  •shortage (noun)
  • leanness.
  •want (noun)
  • exiguousnesses,
  • skimpinesses.

• v.

  •lack (verb)
  • meagerness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • scantness,
  • scattering,
  • shortfall.
  •
  • deficit,
  • shortcoming,
  • underage.
  •
  • inadequacy.
  •
  • couple.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fault,
  • scarcities,
  • absence,
  • meagreness,
  • crunch,
  • inanition,
  • desideratum,
  • scant,
  • Non-existence,
  • scarceness,
  • sparseness,
  • exigency,
  • privation,
  • loss,
  • deprivation,
  • thinness,
  • penury,
  • unusualness,
  • demerit,
  • niggardliness,
  • poorness,
  • Seldomness,
  • failure,
  • Infrequence,
  • stinginess,
  • hardship,
  • uniqueness,
  • destitution,
  • oddity,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • tightness,
  • blemish,
  • undersupply,
  • starvation,
  • miserliness,
  • barrenness,
  • slowness,
  • Neediness,
  • smallness,
  • inadequateness,
  • need.

Paraphrases for Scarcity:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    shortage, shortages.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortage.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    lack.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficiency, lack.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    paucity, rarity, dearth.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    rarety.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Resources, unavailability, availability, deficit, precariousness, depletion, deprivation, absence, non-availability, weakness, rarefaction, insecurity, constraint, stringency, destitution, hardship, penury, drawback, fragility, failure, precarity, meagre.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    shortfall.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortcoming, poverty, flaw, shortfall.

Antonyms for Scarcity:

• n.

  • deficiency
    abundance, excess, sufficiency, commonness, enough, plenty, surplus.
  • Other antonyms:
    bountifulness, teemingness, copiousness, opulence, adequacy, amplitude, oversupply, plenitude, overabundance, wealth.

Scarcity Sentence Examples:

• Food scarcity became in 1609 a serious problem.

• While the scarcity of food became greater the Government, through inspired articles in the press, informed the people that the harvest was so big that there would be no more food difficulties.

Homophones for Scarcity:

• scorched, suricate, scare quote, soricidae, surcoat, skyrocket, sacristy, sarcoid, shrew-sized, squash racquet, square-rigged, suricata, sugarcoat, squash racket, segregate, sarasota, sugar-coated, source code, surrogate, sea-rocket, square-jawed, segregated, Saccharic Acid.