207 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ʃˈɔːtɪd͡ʒ], [ ʃˈɔːtɪd‍ʒ], [ ʃ_ˈɔː_t_ɪ_dʒ]

Similar words for shortage:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• dearth (noun)
• defect (noun)
• deficiency (noun)
• drought (noun)
• incompleteness (noun)
• insufficiency (noun)
• lack (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• paucity (noun)
• poverty (noun)
• shortage (noun)
• shortfall (noun)
• want (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for shortage

Homophones for shortage

Synonyms for Shortage:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • amount.

• 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.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • poverty,
  • paucity,
  • penury,
  • errors,
  • Insufficience,
  • knot,
  • failings,
  • infirmity,
  • needs,
  • infrequency,
  • scarcity,
  • incompleteness,
  • dearth,
  • sparsity,
  • defalcation,
  • scantiness,
  • rough spot,
  • deficiency,
  • rareness,
  • sparseness,
  • slim pickings,
  • shortfall,
  • miss,
  • exiguousness,
  • fewness,
  • in the hole,
  • flaw,
  • lack,
  • speck,
  • famine,
  • slenderness,
  • want,
  • skimpiness,
  • defalcations,
  • defect,
  • inability to hack it,
  • red ink,
  • defectiveness,
  • uncommonness,
  • inadequacy,
  • scar.
  • 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 (noun):
  • 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
    absence, availability, constraint, decrease, defect, deficient, depletion, deprivation, destitution, diminution, disadvantage, drought, enough, failing, failure, hardship, impairment, inability, limitation, manpower, penury, rarity, shortness, stringency, sufficient, tension, unavailability, weakness, Underemployment, refinancing, non-availability.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    flaw, shortcoming.

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.