Nearby Words
aridity
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weather of region |
| Synonyms: | altitude, aridity, atmospheric conditions, characteristic weather, clime, conditions, humidity, latitude, meteorologic conditions, meteorological character, temperature |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | thirst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craving (especially for liquid) |
| Synonyms: | appetite, aridity, desire, drought, dryness, eagerness, hankering, hunger, keenness, longing, lust, passion, thirstiness, yearning, yen |
| Main Entry: | barrenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desolateness |
| Synonyms: | aridity, aridness, bleakness, emptiness, underdevelopment |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quality of being boring |
| Synonyms: | aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity |
| Antonyms: | action, interest, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | meagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack |
| Synonyms: | aridity, need, poverty, scantiness, scarcity |
| Main Entry: | fruitlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | futility |
| Synonyms: | aridity, aridness, barrenness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, unproductiveness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vainness, vanity |
| Main Entry: | impecuniosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | impecuniousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
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