Word Meanings - DEARTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot,

Additional info about word: DEARTH

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEARTH)

• Infrequency
• Rarity
• fewness
• paucity
• dearth
• scantiness
• Scarcity
• Deficiency
• lack
• infrequency
• want
• rarity

Related words: (words related to DEARTH)

• SCANTINESS
  Quality condition of being scanty.
• FEWNESS
  1. The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak. 2. Brevity; conciseness. Shak.
• DEARTH
  Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot,
• DEFICIENCY
  The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a
• RARITY
  1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity of gases. 2. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity. I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows
• PAUCITY
  1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor. 2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• SCARCENESS; SCARCITY
  The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise
• INFREQUENCE; INFREQUENCY
  1. The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrquence of his visits. 2. The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion. The solitude and infrequency of the place. Bp. Hall.