Definition for Shortage:

• Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

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.
  •paucity (noun)
  • sparsenesses,
  • fewnesses,
  • slendernesses.
  •poverty (noun)
  • impoverishment,
  • under-development,
  • penuriousness,
  • abjection,
  • Neediness,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • pennilessness,
  • vacancy,
  • underdevelopment,
  • impecuniousness,
  • Necessitousness,
  • need,
  • pauperism.
  •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.

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.

Shortage Sentence Examples:

• No news everyone hasn't heard: hard times, shortage of hay, and worry everywhere.

• The longer I meditated upon the problem of how to meet the shortage of material for the completion of the cutter the more reluctant did I become to resort to so extreme a measure as the breaking up of the sailing boat, still more the bungalow, to supply the deficiency.

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.