Synonyms for Shortage:

• n.

  •
  • short fall,
  • scant supply.
  •dearth (noun)
  • in-adequacy,
  • in frequency,
  • uncommonnesses,
  • de fault,
  • de faults,
  • in adequacies,
  • in-adequacies,
  • exiguousnesses,
  • in-frequencies,
  • un commonnesses,
  • sparsities,
  • in-frequency,
  • in adequacy,
  • de-fault,
  • slim picking,
  • un-commonness,
  • in frequencies,
  • rarenesses,
  • un commonness,
  • un-commonnesses,
  • de-faults.
  •defect (noun)
  • marrings,
  • un soundness,
  • mis take,
  • mis-takes,
  • dis coloration,
  • rough spots,
  • in juries,
  • dis colorations,
  • un-soundness,
  • in jury,
  • un soundnesses,
  • mis takes,
  • dis-colorations,
  • dis-coloration,
  • un-soundnesses,
  • mis-take,
  • in-jury.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • lapse,
  • failure,
  • insufficiency,
  • deficit,
  • pinch,
  • tightness,
  • weakness,
  • leanness,
  • curtailment.
  •drought (noun)
  • drought.
  •incompleteness (noun)
  • segmental,
  • omission,
  • need,
  • fraction,
  • discontinuity,
  • fragmentation,
  • sectional,
  • part,
  • gap,
  • hiatus.
  •insufficiency (noun)
  • pittance,
  • miserliness,
  • scarceness,
  • meagerness,
  • niggardliness,
  • Flyspeck,
  • stinginess.
  •lack (noun)
  • retrenchments,
  • shrinking,
  • retrenchment,
  • shortness,
  • slightness,
  • exiguity.
  •paucity (noun)
  • sparsenesses,
  • fewnesses,
  • slendernesses.
  •poverty (noun)
  • penuriousness,
  • pauperism,
  • pennilessness,
  • impecuniousness,
  • vacancy,
  • Necessitousness,
  • under-development,
  • underdevelopment,
  • abjection.
  •shortage (noun)
  • shortcoming,
  • arrears,
  • imperfection.
  •shortfall (noun)
  • in red,
  • in completenesses,
  • in hole,
  • in completeness,
  • in-completenesses,
  • incompletenesses,
  • red inks,
  • in-completeness,
  • defectivenesses.
  •want (noun)
  • skimpinesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • loss,
  • absent,
  • nonattendance,
  • absence,
  • bankruptcy,
  • Without,
  • scantness.
  •
  • underage.
  •Other relevant words:
  • falling short,
  • meagreness,
  • demerit,
  • fault,
  • mediocrity,
  • immaturity,
  • impairment,
  • inexactitude,
  • inferiority,
  • privation,
  • debit,
  • undersupply,
  • Arrear,
  • faultiness,
  • adulteration,
  • inaccuracy,
  • missing link,
  • hardship,
  • slump,
  • necessity,
  • deprivation,
  • break,
  • outage,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • impurity,
  • barrenness,
  • inexactness,
  • desideratum,
  • default,
  • drawback,
  • breakdown,
  • crunch,
  • fallibility,
  • sketchiness,
  • impoverishment,
  • interval,
  • erroneousness,
  • lacuna,
  • delinquency,
  • caret,
  • unevenness,
  • decline,
  • starvation,
  • Noncompletion,
  • insubstantial,
  • ullage,
  • Arrearage,
  • blemish,
  • short,
  • Wantage,
  • beggary,
  • unsoundness,
  • short measure,
  • destitution,
  • Defectibility,
  • inadequateness,
  • insufficient,
  • Neediness,
  • patchiness.

Paraphrases for Shortage:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    scarcity, shortfall.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    dearth, paucity, scarcity, shortfall.

• Forward Entailment

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

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    causes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    unavailability, non-availability, absence, shortness, failure, deprivation, hardship, weakness, penury, availability, decrease, refinancing, enough, rarity, constraint, Underemployment, defect, deficient, sufficient, destitution, diminution, disadvantage, inability, tension, drought, stringency, manpower, impairment, limitation, failing, depletion.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortcoming, flaw.

Antonyms for Shortage:

• n.

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

Homophones for Shortage:

• scar tissue, seawards, saratoga, serratus, sardius, socratic, surtax, sacred cow, socrates, Sardis, sourdough, sour dock, serdica, scratchy, scratch, shirred egg, shortcake, skywards, shorts, square toes, shortish, secretase.